How does one explain the deliberate burial of a wild cat? Zooarchaeologist Angela Perri thinks that the 2000-yr-old bobcat was not sacrificed but deliberately arranged in its grave with a collar and its paws place together.
How does one explain the deliberate burial of a wild cat? Zooarchaeologist Angela Perri thinks that the 2000-yr-old bobcat was not sacrificed but deliberately arranged in its grave with a collar and its paws place together.
Moche villages and/or clan groups turned on each other in a battle for scarce resources like food and land. This escalated to the point where the Moche replaced ritual battles and human sacrifices with civil war.
The sacrifices were about making an unpredictable world more predictable. A harsh environment had moulded a harsh civilization with an elaborate set of rituals designed to ensure its survival.
Bourget realized there had to be a deliberate connection between the rain and the sacrifices. It led him to a new insight into the Moche world. The Moche had practiced a form of ritual designed to celebrate or encourage rain.
Their throats cut, the blood of the vanquished drained into a cup and the cup was then drunk by a God-like deity. It was, the archaeologists slowly realized, a story not of war but ritual combat followed by human sacrifice.
The Moche's story is an epic account of a society that thought it could control the world and what happened to it when it found it couldn't. It's a story of human achievement and natural disaster, human sacrifice and war.
All the Moche soldiers were dressed alike, the same images were repeated time and again. When the battle was won, the vanquished were ritually sacrificed.
Chess boxing combines thinking and fighting into a hybrid sport where you have the opportunity to pummel a snarky opponent who forced you to sacrifice your rook.
When you fall head-over-heels in love, you may pay a heavy price of two close friends. One is sacrificed to make way for your new partner, and the other from being ignored for too long.
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.
Chess boxing combines thinking and fighting into a hybrid sport where you have the opportunity to pummel a snarky opponent who forced you to sacrifice your rook.
Chess boxing combines thinking and fighting into a hybrid sport where you have the opportunity to pummel a snarky opponent who forced you to sacrifice your rook.
Chess boxing combines thinking and fighting into a hybrid sport where you have the opportunity to pummel a snarky opponent who forced you to sacrifice your rook.
President Obama implored Republicans for "shared sacrifice" to raise the debt limit, but the intransigent party rejected the notion, calling "shared sacrifice" a euphemism for tax hikes.
A famous fossil, "The Crystal Maiden" is the skeleton of a teenage girl, probably a sacrifice victim, with calcified bones and a sparkling, crystallized appearance.
President Obama implored Republicans for "shared sacrifice" to raise the debt limit, but the intransigent party rejected the notion, calling "shared sacrifice" a euphemism for tax hikes.