May
30
/ 2022
The medicinal use of plants and the collection, dissemination, and application of traditional knowledge surrounding plants (ethnobotany) is an indigenous practice from the Americas well documented to this very day. A lot of these practices are yet to be fully understood, and one such recent example is that from three sacrificed Inca children found in the 1990s in southern Peru. These child mummies, frozen atop a volcano, were ritually sacrificed and intoxicated with stimulants, antidepressants, and maybe alcohol, to ease their passage into their afterlife, as per a new study published in The Journal of Archaeological Science . Sacrificed Inca Children Were Prepared with Drugs for Death These sacrificed Inca children, likely between the ages of 4 and 8, were
