Cliff cave in the former kingdom of Mustang reveal his secret.
By Michael Finkel
Photo by Cory RICHARDS
Skull, human skull, sitting on a rock at the north end of fragile nan remote Mustang district of Nepal. Pete
Athans, the leader of a multidisciplinary team consisting of mountain
climbers and archaeologists, wearing a harness and climbing rope linking
to. He climbed the six-meter high rock with a rope stretched by another climber, Ted Hesser.
When he reached his skull, he pulled out a blue latex gloves to avoid contaminating DNA findings, and gently remove it from the ground. Athans almost certainly be the first to hold the skull in 1,500 years. Soil fell from the eyes of the skull cavity.
He put his findings into a red bag with protective pads, then lowered it to three scientists who are waiting at the bottom: Mark Aldenderfer of the University of California, Merced; Jacqueline Eng from Western Michigan University, and Mohan Singh Lama of Nepal's Department of Archaeology.
Aldenderfer very happy because the skull was still left two molars. Through teeth, we can know the food, health and one's place of birth. Eng, bioarkeologi expert, quickly concluded that the skull was likely to come from a young adult male. He found three fractures that have healed the skull and one on the right jaw. "The signs of violence," she supposed. "Or maybe he kicked a horse?"
But more interesting than the skull itself was a place found. Athans scaled the stone which is located right at the base of a rock cliff brown with white stripes and pink. Near the top of the cliff there are some small caves dug in the rock painstakingly fragile nan. Erosion trigger the collapse of most of the cliff, dropping it to the bottom of the skull. If there is a skull falls, what else might still be up there?
Mustang, royal past in the north-central Nepal, save the world one of the great mysteries of archeology. In the dusty, windswept hidden in the Himalayas and is cleaved by the Kali Gandaki gorge is a lot of man-made caves.
The caves were there in the form of a hole in the cliff giant wavy weathered rock. Others, flocking to the hole when the wind humming along, sometimes eight or nine tiered levels. There are excavated from the face of the cliff, some are dug from above. Many thousands of years of age. Conservative estimate of the total number of caves in Mustang is 10,000 caves. from http://nationalgeographic.co.id/feature/2012/10/gua-gua-langit-di-nepal
When he reached his skull, he pulled out a blue latex gloves to avoid contaminating DNA findings, and gently remove it from the ground. Athans almost certainly be the first to hold the skull in 1,500 years. Soil fell from the eyes of the skull cavity.
He put his findings into a red bag with protective pads, then lowered it to three scientists who are waiting at the bottom: Mark Aldenderfer of the University of California, Merced; Jacqueline Eng from Western Michigan University, and Mohan Singh Lama of Nepal's Department of Archaeology.
Aldenderfer very happy because the skull was still left two molars. Through teeth, we can know the food, health and one's place of birth. Eng, bioarkeologi expert, quickly concluded that the skull was likely to come from a young adult male. He found three fractures that have healed the skull and one on the right jaw. "The signs of violence," she supposed. "Or maybe he kicked a horse?"
But more interesting than the skull itself was a place found. Athans scaled the stone which is located right at the base of a rock cliff brown with white stripes and pink. Near the top of the cliff there are some small caves dug in the rock painstakingly fragile nan. Erosion trigger the collapse of most of the cliff, dropping it to the bottom of the skull. If there is a skull falls, what else might still be up there?
Mustang, royal past in the north-central Nepal, save the world one of the great mysteries of archeology. In the dusty, windswept hidden in the Himalayas and is cleaved by the Kali Gandaki gorge is a lot of man-made caves.
The caves were there in the form of a hole in the cliff giant wavy weathered rock. Others, flocking to the hole when the wind humming along, sometimes eight or nine tiered levels. There are excavated from the face of the cliff, some are dug from above. Many thousands of years of age. Conservative estimate of the total number of caves in Mustang is 10,000 caves. from http://nationalgeographic.co.id/feature/2012/10/gua-gua-langit-di-nepal
