"REPRESENT TO OF ERA PREHISPANIC INFANTS " [ENGLISH]

In the district of Andahuaylillas, the region of Cusco, were found mummies the two children pre-Hispanic undergoing cranial deformation processes.

Cusco The DRC noted that the first individual in study corresponds to an children who has loss of the lower limbs.

Specified that keeps soft tissues such skin as the neck and chest covering the spine, ribs and part of the right arm.

The skull shows deformation of annular type and you can be seen traces of the deforming pads in frontal and occipital, as well as traces of deforming in the parietal.
Regarding the cranial sutures, said they are in the process of closing, including the fontanelle, a process that occurs during childhood but can last longer depending on many factors.

The anthropologist pointed out that both bones were obtained by looting, so are incomplete and are not associated to a ajuar funerary as was customary in ancient times.

According to chroniclers of the colonial era, these practices were promoted by the Inca Manco Capac and later by his grandson, the Inca Yupanqui Lloque.