Photo Gallery

Skull of a child - Second phase of the Atacameña culture - Origin: Quitor (province of Antofagasta) - Museo San Pedro de Atacama - Chile - 1976

Mummy of a young woman - Second phase of the Atacameña culture - 300 BC - Origin: Solor - Museum San Pedro de Atacama - Chile - 1976

Tools, awls and needles of deer and bird bones. Length: from 2.86 inches. Mesa Verde (Colorado), Anasazi Culture, MVM. - Two bone fragments (perhaps deer) with incisings, which may have been used in games. Each l.12 inches long. Mesa Verde, Anasazi Culture, MVM.
MVM = Mesa Verde National Park Museum (Colorado)

Ceremonial staff, a mortuary offering found in a grave in a kiva, carved out of the thigh bone of a grizzly bear with a precisely executed geometric design and a finely polished surface. Mogollon Culture, ASM.
ASM = Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson (Arizona)

The legends are only available in German, French or Spanish
Exhumés de tombeaux pré-inca et inca, ces très vieux instruments sont conservés au Museo Yoshitaro Amano de Lima, Pérou. Longue de 20,5 centimètres, une quena d'os blanc à quatre trous, ponctuée de petits cercles poinçonnés au centre, provient du site de Lauri-Chancay, sur la côte. Et de Chincha, plus au sud, l'autre quena en forme de bras prolongé d'une main et gravée d'un totem humain.

The legends are only available in German or Spanish
Schädel mit Stirnband aus einem Atacameño-Grab der Zweiten Phase im Fundort Quitor 6, Atacamawüste. Das Grab enthielt nur den Schädel ohne das restliche Skelett. Solche rituellen Schädelbestattungen sind bisher von keiner anderen Fundstelle Südamerikas bekannt geworden. Museo San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. - 1976

Female skull with hair band - Atacameña culture second phase - Origin: Coyo Oriental - Museum San Pedro de Atacama - Chile - 1976

Mummy of a woman with child - Atacameña culture second phase - blanket with borders - volcanic rock and turquoise necklace - Origin: Sequitor Alambrado - Museum San Pedro de Atacama - Chile - 1976

These prehistoric pottery shards and bones come from the Adrar Bous area - West Ténéré - Niger - 1975