Dværgmumien fra Wyoming: Forskelle mellem versioner

Den bedste videnskabelig forklaring på dværgmumien er, at det er en mumificeret dødfødt baby.<ref>[http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/did-a-mummy-prove-the-wyoming-legend/article_d360bb9a-ea9a-11df-91db-001cc4c002e0.html November 07, 2010, billingsgazette.com: Did a mummy prove the Wyoming legend?] Citat: "...He advertised nationwide for leads...In 1971, the University of Wyoming hired its only physical anthropologist, George Gill...Gill explained that the mummy may not have been an adult. It was a human, he believed, and X-rays and a lung analysis done by Harry Shapiro at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, showed that the mummy was an infant, with a disease called anencephaly..."</ref><ref>[[:en:Anencephaly]]</ref><ref name="Chiquita">[http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/meet-chiquita-a-tiny-blonde--year-old-wyoming-mummy/article_eea4b82a-0525-5fd2-8f78-85f925c203cc.html July 06, 2014, trib.com: Meet Chiquita: A tiny, blonde, 500-year-old Wyoming mummy] Citat: "...They both hold tantalizing clues about those who inhabited Wyoming’s past and what sort of lives they had. Both likely didn’t survive birth...But there’s a problem. Both are again lost and gone...The poster featured photos of the mummy and X-rays of it from the side and front. This prehistoric pygmy was 65 years old when it died, the poster claimed, and predated the human race. All lies. But they made for a fascinating story -- one that could sell...“I was pretty certain the Pedro Mountain one was an anencephalic infant,” he said...Chiquita's DNA indicated that she was Native American..."</ref>

 

To prospektorer, Cecil Mayne og Frank Carr sprængte i oktober 1932 sig vej gennem nogle tykke klipper som en guldåre fortsatte ind i. Dette foregik I [[San Pedro mountains]], [[Carbon County (Wyoming)|Carbon County, Wyoming]]. Efter at støvet havde lagt sig, så de at de havde åbnet et lille rum på omkring 1,3 meter høj og 1,6 meter bred og 5 meter dyb. Dette var hvor de først så [[mumie]]n af en [[små folk (mytologi)|lille person]].

 

== Mumien Pedro ==

 

Lige fra opdagelsen blev den kaldet et svindelnummer af de fleste lærde. Mange troede, at det var en dukke. Videnskabsfolk kom fra hele landet for at se på mumien. Et [[røntgenbillede]] blev taget af mumien i 1950 og det blev opdaget, at der var et "menneskelignende" <ref name="legendsofamerica.com">[http://www.legendsofamerica.com/wy-littlepeople.html The Little People of Wyoming and the Pedro Mountains Mummy]</ref> skelet indeni. Nogle af knoglerne var brækket, inklusiv rygsøjlen, ''collarbone'' og kraniet. Disse skader på toppen af kraniet tydede på en voldsom død.

 

Der er fundet flere formodede dværgmumier, men de er senere gået tabt (fx Chiquita).<ref name="Chiquita"/>

 

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* [[:en:Little People of the Pryor Mountains]]

 

 

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