Saturday, March 10, 2012

Cave People of the Himalaya

For our group project on Inca child sacrifice, a lot of these mortuary practices have been found at high elevation mountain summits.  I came across another archaeological site, exploring mortuary practices on mountains this time in the Himalayas. On this webpage, you can find information and a short video clip/trailer on this site and research.  The video is pretty neat; technical climbers were hired to help the archaeologist reach the caves on the mountain cliff face.  The process of getting to these caves is pretty extreme... this process gives me a new perspective on how extreme finding mortuary remains can be.

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