Barbara J. King on Nostr: As chilling as it is informative: In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal ...

As chilling as it is informative: In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, an international cohort of researchers revealed that the children — sacrificial victims killed between 500 and 900 A.D. — were all local Maya boys that may have been specifically selected to be killed in sibling pairs. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/science/archaeology-maya-genetics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU0.2Qqs.BQyQjLVv4VYt&smid=url-share #anthropology #genome #archaeology #archaeogenetics