Celebrating America’s indigenous peoples

And doing away with any mention of that Italian working for Spain.

“Anthropologists have found evidence of a mass ritual killing that involved the deaths of more than 140 children, three adults, and at least 200 young llamas on the northern coast of Peru. …

“The sacrificial victims ranged in age from 6 to 14, and appear to have been killed in a well-planned and choreographed event on a single, horrific day. …

“The children, both boys and girls, all appear to have been killed in the same way — with a single horizontal slice across the sternum.

“As if all this wasn’t gruesome enough, researchers say that many of the children’s rib cages appear to have been pried apart. This suggests that their hearts were removed shortly after they died.”

https://moonbattery.com/what-indigenous-peoples-day-celebrates/

(Columbus and the dastardly Europeans who followed put an end to this sort of thing.)

“Gabriel Prieto, a professor of archaeology from the National University of Trujillo who started excavating Huanchaquito-Las Llamas in 2011, said the discovery shocked him and his colleagues.

“’In Peru we are familiar with human bones, but in this particular case there were so many skeletons and they were all children,’ he said. ‘It was astonishing.’”

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“Anthropologists have known for decades that the Chimú occasionally engaged in mass killings. In the 1970s, archaeologists working in Chan Chan found the remains of hundreds of young women who were sacrificed to attend to the king after his death. Researchers have also found the bones of 200 victims — including children, adults and the elderly — who were executed by Chimú warriors sometime around 1300.”

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“At the same time, Prieto has started excavating another site at nearby Pampa La Cruz, where he has already found 132 kids and 250 llamas. It’s a grisly find that leads to an even more grisly conclusion about the mass ritual killing of children at Huanchaquito-Las Llamas.”

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-child-sacrifice-hearts-peru-20190306-story.html