[SunkenCiv]

Human deposit in rock shelter attached to Northern Acropolis exposed in situ. Credit: CINVESTAV Unidad Mérida

[edwinland]

For anyone interested in this subject, I highly recommend Inga Clendinnen’s The Aztecs which is a meticulous account of Mexicn culture just before the conquest. One ponit she makes is how human sacrifice was performed by an elite class of priests but it the entire society took part on elaborate festival days where neighborhoods all received parts of bodies and divided them up to families who organized feasts around them.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I have a personal theory on that like my historic beheading theory. Ancient and medieval barbers weren’t very good. Their failures were all victims of really bad haircuts. For centuries barbers had a really powerful lobby to deflect and obscure any evidence of those transgressions.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Now that is probably the happiest, most pleasant and most upbeat article you’ve posted!

I can’t imagine researchers wanting to study that topic.

“Professor, I’ve got an idea for my thesis...’heart removal in mesoamerica’”

[Pelham]