Ice Maidens Of The Andes (Time Travelers (Twenty First Century)) [Hardcover]

Janet Buell (Author)

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Publication Date: December 9, 1997 | Age Level: 8 and up | Series: Time Travelers (Twenty First Century)

Discusses the discovery of the 500-year-old frozen body of a young girl on a mountain top in the Andes and how this discovery has increased our knowledge of the ancient South American civilization of the Incas.

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Grade 5-8?Bog Bodies begins with the discovery of Lindow Man in an English peat bog in 1984. As this 1900-year-old body's condition and characteristics are examined and described, secrets of Celtic culture are revealed bit by bit. Knowledge gained from Danish, German, and North American bog mummies add to the picture of human existence some 2000 years ago. Full-color photographs of mummies and of Celtic artifacts make the Lindow Man's world, and that of Lindow Woman and Lindow III, come to life. Much of the evidence points to Lindow Man and many bog mummies having been sacrificed to pagan gods although that's not a certain conclusion. On the other hand, the Ice Maiden of the Andes, nicknamed "Juanita," found near the peak of Mount Ampato in 1995, was definitely a human sacrifice. The story of her discovery and details of the problems in recovering her body are as fascinating as any murder mystery. Facts gleaned from written and oral history plus examinations of the remains of earlier sacrificial victims are combined to form an impression of what Juanita's last days and moments may have been like. Lindow Man and Juanita are both more recent finds than those described in Patricia Lauber's Tales Mummies Tell (Crowell, 1985), although additional bog mummies are discussed in that book and in Bog Bodies as well. Buell supplements the interesting stories with full-color photos, time lines, extensive glossaries, source notes, further-reading sources, and indexes to create fascinating and informative packages.?Ann G. Brouse, Big Flats Branch Library, NY
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: 21st Century; 1st edition (December 9, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805051856
• ISBN-13: 978-0805051858
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,670,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Ice Maidens Of The Andes (Time Travelers (Twenty First Century)) (Hardcover)

During the lifetime of one of the last of the 13 Inca emperors who controlled parts of western coastal South America between 1200 and 1532, a girl now called Juanita summited Mt Ampato. In the ending months of 1995, nearby volcanic ash melted mountain top ice and snow, putting this mummified ICE MAIDEN OF THE ANDES in the path of mountain explorers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate. The author gives an idea of how difficult high altitude archaeology can be and of how Latin American mummies such as Juanita, El Plomo and Sarita can answer scientific questions, such as verifying that the wart virus existed in the pre-Columbian western hemisphere. So Janet Buell's book reads well with David Getz's FROZEN GIRL, Nova's ICE MUMMIES: FROZEN IN HEAVEN video, Dr Reinhard's DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN, and Susan Vande Griek's A GIFT FOR AMPATO.