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Male human heads found in a 'skull pit' in an ancient Chinese city hint at sex-specific sacrifice rituals

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

Brutal sacrifice ritual discovered in ancient ‘skull pit’ burial – and most of the victims were MEN

AN ANCIENT burial used for a grizzly sacrifice ritual has been uncovered with around 80 skulls. Experts were left gob-smacked ...

Women and men were both sacrificed in ancient China – but for different reasons

Archaeologists suspect the ancient society carried out two types of human sacrifices – one that involved mass burials of men ...

Ancient Chinese DNA shows gender bias in human sacrifice ritual 4,000 years ago

Sacrificial victims in mass burials were mostly male, while burial attendants for nobles or elites were overwhelmingly female ...

Male skulls at Shimao gate rewrite story of Neolithic human sacrifice

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...

Ancient Chinese city Shimao sacrificed men at construction sites and women in elite burials, study finds

A new genetic study of the ancient Chinese city of Shimao reveals a strictly patrilineal society that practised ...
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Peruvian temple offers clues into 3,000-year-old human sacrifices

LIMA (Reuters) -In a stark discovery on Peru's northern coast, archaeologists have unearthed the 3,000-year-old remains of 14 people believed to be victims of a ritual human sacrifice, offering a ...