Damn SUVs!
Posted on 04/28/2018 10:42:17 PM PDT by Simon Green
Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world’s largest single case of child sacrifice.
The burial site, known as Las Llamas, contains the skeletons of 140 children who were aged between five and 14 when they were ritually sacrificed during a ceremony about 550 years ago, archaeologists said on Friday.
The site, located near the city of Trujillo, also contained the remains of 200 young llamas apparently sacrificed on the same day.
The burial site was apparently built by the Chimú empire. It is thought the children were sacrificed as floods caused by the El Niño weather pattern ravaged the Peruvian coastline.
“They were possibly offering the gods the most important thing they had as a society, and the most important thing is children because they represent the future,” said Gabriel Prieto, an archaeology professor at Peru’s National University of Trujillo, who has led the excavation along with John Verano of Tulane University.
“Llamas were also very important because these people had no other beasts of burden; they were a fundamental part of the economy.”
Prieto said the children were buried facing the sea, while the llamas faced the Andes mountains to the east.
Excavation work at the burial site started in 2011, but the findings were first published on Thursday by National Geographic, which helped finance the investigation.
Prieto said researchers also found footprints that have survived rain and erosion. The small footprints indicate the children were marched to their deaths from Chan Chan, an ancient city 1.5km (one mile) from Las Llamas, he said.
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The Peruvians should be totally ashamed for this atrocity! They should all pay retributions to the particular race of people that was sacrificed. They should build monuments that atone for their sins.
I’m trying to mimic what a lefty would say, did I miss anything?
Liberals should be forced to read real history books for 4 hours a day until it soaks in.
Kind of complements abortion, at least for the Left.
“democrats, or just the nea?”
Good point. I guess one could say the modern version of this are parents who send their kids to public schools.
Yes — the movie was a psychobabble abomination; and yes, the song was specific to the movie. Neither are worth remembering; but Karen Carpenter is.
Your reference to Billy Jack and the One Tin Soldier song is definitely on the money.
but when those horrible white European catholics came over and stopped this crap....oh, they were genocidal, right????
what a croc, true western civ has been the savior of mankind in general....despite any of its own shortcomings....
Evil White man took them off their game.
We can thank the Spaniards for bringing Christianity here and many other places. Cannibalism was also prevalent in Africa prior to Christian invasion.
Did they find Planned Parenthood sign on it?
Damn SUVs!
They were doing this before the evil Europeans arrived? How can that be in what we are told was a land of peace, harmony, sugar and honey????
The sacrifice of the weak to the preferences of the strong has been the human default from our origin. That makes the exceptions even more precious and worth of defense.
Just one planned parenthood location will beat anything this silly Old site can produce!!!
Ginving up their own beloved children hoping the gods would be appeased? I doubt it after watching other massive murders by ideologies. There is always a secular motive that the ideology gives moral cover to carry out.
Probably the ruling class taking the children of the poor.
Good thing that the Spanish and Portugese put an end to all this. Native American murder cults.
I thought that it was cooling, not warming that caused the Romans to retreat from their Northern frontiers, such as Britain and Germania. When Hadrian built his wall, they were planting citrus groves and vineyards there.
where’s ISIS when you need them to blow something up?
The British government is still killing babies.
Soaks into what??? /s
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