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This Ancient High-Status Woman Was Buried With a Parrot-Feather Cape and a Beaded Toucan’s Beak in Modern-Day Peru
- Archaeologists announced on April 24, 2025, the discovery of a 5,000-year-old noblewoman's remains at the Aspero site in Caral, Peru.
- The burial site at Aspero, part of the Caral civilization from 3000 to 1800 BC, was previously a garbage dump and became archaeological in the 1990s.
- The well-preserved remains included skin, hair, nails, and a headdress indicating the woman’s high social status within this ancient cultural center.
- Archaeologist David Palomino stated that the findings indicate the individual was a high-ranking woman, emphasizing the significant roles women held in the society.
- This find challenges prior assumptions that men held primary authority, suggesting women had important roles in Caral society, one of the oldest in the Americas.
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The great discovery also reveals the important role that women played in the center of the oldest civilization in America. “The discovery corresponds to a woman who apparently had a high status, an elite woman,” said archaeologist David Palomino. The mummy was found in Aspero, a sacred site within the city of Caral, which for more than 30 years was a garbage dump, until it became an archaeological site in the 1990s.
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