Unusual Archaeology: Investigating Ancient Human Sacrifice (Part 3)

Content warning: This episode focuses in part on the archaeological
study of ancient human sacrifice, including incidents involving
young children. While we have taken care not to include gratuitous
descriptions of violence, this episode does contain frank
discussion of the circumstances of these deaths and the nature of
these individuals’ remains. In the final episode of our three-part
series on unusual archaeology, science journalist Kata Karáth takes
you on one more adventure—to a mountaintop with an extreme climate,
where archaeologists investigate the practice of human sacrifice
among the Inka. Listen to the first two episodes of this series
exploring humanity’s past: — Sustainable Fishing with Ancient
Chambers and Ocean Tides — How Ancient Humans Interpreted the
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