Maya dismembered their enemies

[ScienceRocks]

Maya dismembered their enemies

Researchers of the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn have discovered a mass grave in an artificial cave in the historical Maya city of Uxul (Mexico). Marks on the bones indicate that the individuals buried in the cave were decapitated and dismembered around 1,400 years ago. The scientists assume that the victims were either prisoners of war or nobles from Uxul itself. For the last five years, archaeologists of the department of Anthropology of the Americas of the University of Bonn have been excavating in the historical Maya city of Uxul in Campeche (Mexico) with the aim of researching the origins and the collapse of regional states in the Maya lowlands. The project headed by Prof. Dr. Nikolai Grube and Dr. Kai Delvendahl from the University of Bonn, as well as Dr. Antonio Benavides from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has now made a sensational find: they have uncovered the skeletons of 24 people in an approximately 32 square meter artificial cave that had formerly been used as a water reservoir.

Maya dismembered their enemies | e! Science News

 

[whitehall]

Not to mention that the losers in the primitive form of soccer had their hearts ripped out and their heads used as practice balls for the next match.

 

[Moonglow]

They wasted all that long pig by not eating them also.

 

[ScienceRocks]

It's not impossible that one of these empires(Maya, Aztec, or inca) could of invaded and did this to the native America here by now.

You can't name a single culture, race or people in the history of man that wouldn't of done the same.

We're a violent species.