Peru:
Archaeologists in Peru said on Thursday that they found the 5,000 -year -old remains of a noble woman in the holy city of Caral, who reveal the important role that women played in the oldest center of civilization in America.
“What has been discovered corresponds to a woman who apparently had raised the status, an elite woman,” archaeologist David Palomino told AFP.
The mummy was found in Aspero, a holy place in the city of Caral who was a garbage dump for more than 30 years until he became an archaeological site in the 1990s.
Palomino said that the carefully preserved remains, dating from 3000 years BC, contain skin, part of the nails and hair and was wrapped in a shroud made of different layers of dust and a mantle of Ara -springs.
Makas are colorful birds that belong to the parrot family.
The funerary trousseau of the woman, who was presented to reporters from the Ministry of Culture, included a Toucan's mouth, a stone bowl and a straw basket.
Provisional analyzes indicate that the remains in December are a woman between 20 and 35 years old who was 1.5 meters long and wore a headdress that represented her increased social status.
Palomino said reporters that the find showed that although “it was generally thought that rulers were men, or that they had more prominent roles in society” women had “played a very important role in the Caral Civilization.”
Caral Society developed between 3000 and 1800 BC, around the same time as other great cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China.
The city is located in the fertile Supe -Valley, about 180 kilometers (113 miles) north of Lima and 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the Pacific.
It was named an un -world heritage site in 2009.
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