THE FIRST MEMBER OF the team to unearth human bones at the site of Iglesiachayoq was Félix Huamani, a farmer who lives in the Chicha-Soras Valley of Peru's Ayacucho region. As he dug through the earth beneath a colonial-era church, he revealed a skull whose teeth and lower jaw were covered with a black soot-like substance. Huamani had just discovered what seemed to be the first archaeological evidence of an Andean resistance movement that arose in the aftermath of the Spanish conquest of 1532. Known as the Taki Onqoy, or the "dancing sickness" in the Quechua language, members of this religious and political movement were said by contemporaneous Spanish clerics to have exhumed their dead from beneath churches and reburied them according to Andean customs. The skull that Huamani had unearthed may be both the first physical evidence of such an act of rebellion and an example of how Andean people transformed Spanish burial customs by intertwining them with their own ritual practices.
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Digs & Discoveries - A Friend For Hercules - Archaeologists discovered a finely carved head depicting Apollo, god of the sun, music, and poetry.
While digging at the crossroads of the two main streets in the ancient city of Philippi in northern Greece, archaeologists discovered a finely carved head depicting Apollo, god of the sun, music, and poetry.
Digs & Discoveries - A Fortress Sanctuary - A sprawling 2,000-year-old fortress in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan appears to have included a sanctuary dedicated to the ancient Persian water goddess Anahita.
A sprawling 2,000-year-old fortress in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan appears to have included a sanctuary dedicated to the ancient Persian water goddess Anahita.
RISE AND FALL OF TIWANAKU
New dating techniques are unraveling the mystery of a sacred Andean city
Making a Roman Emperor
A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family's rise to power in the late second century A.D.
The Assyrian Renaissance
Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world's grandest imperial capitals
Java's Megalithic Mountain
Across the Indonesian archipelago, people raised immense stones to honor their ancestors
RITES OF REBELLION
Archaeologists unearth evidence of a 500-year-old resistance movement high in the Andes
Secrets of Egypt's Golden Boy
CT scans offer researchers a virtual look deep inside a mummy's coffin
LAPAKAHI VILLAGE, HAWAII
Standing beside a cove on the northwest coast of the island of Hawaii, the fishing village of Lapakahi, which is surrounded by black lava stone walls, was once home to generations of fishers and farmers known throughout the archipelago for their mastery of la'au lapa'au, or the practice of traditional Hawaiian medicine. \"
PREVENTING THE RETURN OF THE DEAD
An archaeological team excavating a necropolis at the site of Sagalassos in southwest Turkey uncovered an unusual and very eerie tomb.
