researchers make a path-breaking discovery on Mount Llullaillaco

Researchers Found

Interestingly, researchers also found stone ruins down the summit. The spot was 17,000-foot below the mountain peak. They also stumbled upon ceramics of a camp where participants probably used to stay before ascending to the summit for their fate.

Diet

What Wilson further learned that the diet of those two children was the same as the peasants of that time. According to the team, they used to eat vegetables only. The diet included especially potatoes.   

Eating Habits

The testing was done so efficiently that the researchers easily figured out that the diet of the younger girl had changed just a year before her death. In this year, the children had started eating expensive food items like Ilama and maize.     

Elite Food

The food items present in their body clarified that these kids had started the intake of Incan elite diet some months ago only. On the other hand, Maiden herself was eating this type of food for a long time.

Difference In Personalities

Not only did the hair samples helped archeologists to find out about their eating habits but also highlighted the individual difference they had with each other. They found out that Maiden had also consumed coca leaves in a heavier amount than the children found with her. It is to be noted that coca leaves are a very good source of cocaine.  

Braided Hair

Wilson said, “she has fantastically tightly braided hair, which effectively acts as a timeline stretching back almost two years before her death.” There were many other things they noticed about the Maiden that was going to prove very significant for the research.