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The authors based their conclusions on an analysis of Monitoring the Future, a yearly survey of 16,000 high school seniors that plumbs their views on drugs, alcohol, tobacco and, to a lesser extent, politics. The research is funded by the National Institutes of Health. The study will be published May 25 in the Journal of Politics.

A Peruvian Woman of A.D. 450 Seems to Have Had Two Careers

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Published: May 17, 2006

The New York Times

A mummy of mystery has come to light in Peru.

She was a woman who died some 1,600 years ago in the heyday of the Moche culture, well before the rise of the Incas. Her imposing tomb suggests someone of high status. Her desiccated remains are covered with red pigment and bear tattoos of patterns and mythological figures.

But the most striking aspect of the discovery, archaeologists said yesterday, is not the offerings of gold and semiprecious stones, or the elaborate wrapping of her body in fine textiles, but the other grave goods.

She was surrounded by weaving materials and needles, befitting a woman, and 2 ceremonial war clubs and 28 spear throwers — sticks that propel spears with far greater force — items never found before in the burial of a woman of the Moche (pronounced MOH-chay).

Was she a warrior princess, or perhaps a ruler? Possibly.