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2025.3.21

Exploring the origin of ritual sacrifice and war in the ancient Andes: bioarchaeological analyses of human remains

Tomohito Nagaoka (Aomori Public University)

The target of this study is the trauma in the human remains from the ancient Ands. The purposes of this study are to describe the types, frequencies, locations, severity, presence of healings of the trauma, to explore the direct evidence of violence in the human remains, to reconstruct the life history patterns of the victims, and finally to explore the origin of violent behaviors and their relationships with socioeconomic conditions and climatic changes in the Andes. Using the transdisciplinary analyses of bioarchaeology, this study aims to reconstruct new Andean Civilization from the perspectives of ritual sacrifice and war.

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