years old (based upon her tooth development), popularly referred to as "Juanita" or "The Ampato Ice Maiden." DNA testing determined that Juanita was related to individuals living in northern Peru and Argentina, and was likely not related to villages near Ampato. Juanita’s body was discovered 70 meters below the summit, where she presumably landed after the collapse of her funerary platform. She was wrapped in high quality decorated textiles and surrounded by her funerary assemblage, including pottery, chuspas (some containing coca leaves or hair), llama bones, and four female figurines crafted from spondylus shell. A needle biopsy of Juanita’s stomach revealed that she had been fed a large meal of vegetables around 6 to 8 hours before her sacrifice. Additionally, a CT scan indicated she was killed with a blow to the head. The other three capacocha sacrifices interred at Ampato were found marked by stone circles within the funerary complex, and were all between the ages of 8 and 12. Two girls and one boy were discovered, all three of which were likely sacrificed during the same ceremony based on the positionality and proximity of the burials. The burial of the first girl found at the site was unusual compared to other capacocha burials, as six pots had been ritually broken on her grave. Her body was dressed with a macaw feather headdress and sandals, and was buried with numerous ceramic vessels, figurines, cups, spoons, and weaving tools. The male child was adorned with a vegetable fiber headdress and had elongated pierced earlobes, indicating he may have been the son of an elite family. He was buried with ceramic vessels, cups, and a male figurine. The second female body found was also buried with multiple ceramic vessels, as well as a female figurine crafted from spondylus shell. All three mummies had been damaged by lightning strikes, preventing soft tissue research from being done on their bodies. See also Child sacrifice in pre-Columbian cultures List of Andean peaks with known pre-Columbian ascents Notes References Bray, Tamara L.; Minc, Leah D.; Ceruti, María Constanza; Chávez, José Antonio; Perea, Ruddy; Reinhard, Johan (2005). "A compositional analysis of pottery vessels associated with the Inca ritual of capacocha". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 24 (1): 82–100. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2004.11.001. ISSN 0278-4165. Ceruti, Maria Constanza (2015). "Frozen Mummies from Andean Mountaintop Shrines: Bioarchaeology and Ethnohistory of Inca Human Sacrifice". BioMed Research International. 2015: 1–12. doi:10.1155/2015/439428. ISSN 2314-6133. Faux,