Toxic Pigment in a Capacocha Burial: Instrumental Identification of Cinnabar in Inca Human Remains from Iquique, Chile. Arriaza, B., Ogalde, J. P., Campos, M., Paipa, C., Leyton, P., & Lara, N. Archaeometry, 60(6):1324–1333, December, 2018. ![Toxic Pigment in a Capacocha Burial: Instrumental Identification of Cinnabar in Inca Human Remains from Iquique, Chile [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex We report on the analysis of a red pigment found in a lavish Inca burial from Cerro Esmeralda, Chile, associated with the human sacrifice of two young girls. The outcome shows that the red pigment is mainly cinnabar, with 95% of HgS content. Cinnabar is rarely found in the archaeological record of Chile. Thus, we propose that our results are another line of evidence supporting Iquique's Cerro Esmeralda inhumation as a unique Inca ritual. It was a special lower-elevation capacocha burial, most probably undertaken to politically and symbolically incorporate the coastal people into the Tawantinsuyo Empire.
@article{arriaza_toxic_2018,
title = {Toxic {Pigment} in a {Capacocha} {Burial}: {Instrumental} {Identification} of {Cinnabar} in {Inca} {Human} {Remains} from {Iquique}, {Chile}},
volume = {60},
copyright = {© 2018 University of Oxford},
issn = {1475-4754},
shorttitle = {Toxic {Pigment} in a {Capacocha} {Burial}},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/arcm.12392},
doi = {10.1111/arcm.12392},
abstract = {We report on the analysis of a red pigment found in a lavish Inca burial from Cerro Esmeralda, Chile, associated with the human sacrifice of two young girls. The outcome shows that the red pigment is mainly cinnabar, with 95\% of HgS content. Cinnabar is rarely found in the archaeological record of Chile. Thus, we propose that our results are another line of evidence supporting Iquique's Cerro Esmeralda inhumation as a unique Inca ritual. It was a special lower-elevation capacocha burial, most probably undertaken to politically and symbolically incorporate the coastal people into the Tawantinsuyo Empire.},
language = {en},
number = {6},
urldate = {2018-11-13TZ},
journal = {Archaeometry},
author = {Arriaza, B. and Ogalde, J. P. and Campos, M. and Paipa, C. and Leyton, P. and Lara, N.},
month = dec,
year = {2018},
keywords = {Cerro Esmeralda, Raman spectroscopy, SEM, ancient poisoning, mercury, mortuary rituals, red pigments},
pages = {1324--1333}
}
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