'An offering to energize the fields': 76 child sacrifice victims, all with their chests cut open, unearthed at burial site in Peru (www.livescience.com)
from Deadeyegai@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 21:15
https://lemmy.world/post/21710844

Now something more uplifting today

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Myxomatosis@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 21:18 next collapse

Don’t give Stephen Miller any new ideas.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 21:54 collapse

The Spondylus shells were “more valuable than gold for these people,” said Gabriel Prieto, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Florida who directs the excavations at Pampa La Cruz.

True when the Spanish came too. Indigenous peoples liked gold, sure, but they didn’t understand the Spanish lust for it. It was something they made things out of, but in the same way brass is something we make things out of. It was mostly just a shiny metal.

The Spanish could probably have just asked. But I guess then there wouldn’t have been the fun of the Inquisition and the slaughtering.