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Mummy of paraplegic child shows how Peru’s Nasca culture treated disability

The builders of the Nasca Lines cared for their sick, even when times got tough.

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...Archaeologist Lorna Tilley and her colleagues have taken a second look at that study in an effort to reconstruct details of the child’s experience with his illness and disability, the kind of care he probably received, and what that reveals about the culture in which he lived. “I rely on taking the information available from the work of other archaeologists and synthesizing it, hoping that I've understood their research results and providing copious references so that readers can go to the sources themselves,” Tilley told Ars Technica.

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1938 illustration by Ronald McLeod.