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Re:Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice in Peru May Be World's Largest by nprecup on Saturday April 28, 2018 @03:04PM (#16949000)
From some information in the article, it seems possible to me that the mass sacrifice might have been a cruel pacification technique by the conquering Inca? It says the Chimu empire fell around 1475 to the Inca. The rope and textiles were radiocarbon dated to 1400 to 1450 AD.
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