Monday, September 21, 2009

Mummified child's arm, looter's foot prints and urine

Looted human cranium


Looted human cranium, originally uploaded by Nathan Craig.

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looted Late Intermediate Period lims and ceramics

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looted burial of a mummified dog

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looted Late Intermediate Period cranium with copper staining and hair

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looted human cranium and looter's cigaretts

Looters smoke tobacco to in order to protect themselves from "malaire" which is also known as "antimonio" or bad air.

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looted materials consisting of mumified limb, mandible, Late Intermediate Period ceramic, and cotton fragments

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Portraits of violated burials

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looted human remains found in situ

These human remains were probably arranged by looters.

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looter's cigarette pack and footprints

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looted crania scattered on the surface

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Human pelvis and looter's footprint

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Looted child burial with copper staining hair attached to the scalp

Probably a Late Intermediate Period burial.

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Human cranium and a pack of looter's cigaretts

Looters smoke tobacco to in order to protect themselves from "malaire", or "antimonio".

Note: Unfortunately, in order to upload this image from Peru, I had to downsize the photograph considerably.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

The beginning...and the end.


Looters use a tool to probe the ground for empty spaces - burials underground. These holes are probes by a looter. This is how it begins.



This crania is left, missing its mandible, atop an adobe brick. Cotton still clinging to the head is what's left of the pillowy bundle fill in which this person was enveloped. Photos by Margaret Brown Vega, 2007.