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The Final Ascent: New Study Reveals How the Inca Conducted Capacocha Sacrifices

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The Final Ascent: New Study Reveals How the Inca Conducted Capacocha Sacrifices

External photographs and CT-based three-dimensional reconstructions of the Cerro El Plomo child mummy reveal cranial fractures consistent with a fatal head injury sustained shortly before death during the Inca Capacocha ritual

The Inca made long pilgrimages across rugged Andes mountain trails in preparation for the empire’s sacred ritual, Capacocha. They endured weeks of climbing, carrying offerings, and spiritual paraphernalia. They took with them sacrificial offerings that included the children and young women who would be sacrificed. The Inca believed the children would achieve divinity, becoming messengers who moved between the worlds of ancestors, humans, and mountain gods. The messengers would appeal to the gods for fertile fields, good weather, and a strong, expanding Inca state.

New Study Examines Capacocha Pilgrimages and Ritual Sacrifice

A recent scientific study, Pilgrimage to Sacrifice: Mechanisms, Causes, and Time of Death of the Western Andean Capacocha of the Southern Tawantinsuyu, presents a detailed investigation into two Capacocha cases from the western slope of the Andes. Researchers examined the discoveries of Cerro Esmeralda, located in the coastal Atacama Desert of northern Chile, and Cerro El Plomo, in the high mountains of central Chile. The study combines archaeological evidence, forensic analysis, radiology, and environmental data. Using advanced scanning technology and chemical analysis, the scientists were able to determine the cause of death and how the bodies were preserved in a mummified state at the top of high-altitude mountains. 

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