Research
Mass Sacrifices in Ancient Peru Coincided With El Niños, Yet Daily Life There Was Surprisingly Peaceful
ScienceAlert · By Jess Cockerill ·
The Brief
- Mass sacrifices in ancient Peru coincided with El Niño events, according to ScienceAlert's report.
- The same reporting says daily life in that society was surprisingly peaceful.
- The sources provided contain only the headline and a short excerpt, so details of the study are unknown.
Why it matters
It links past extreme climate events, such as El Niño, to social responses like ritual violence, which is relevant to how researchers think about climate stress on societies.
Who’s affected
- archaeologists and paleoclimate researchers
- readers interested in climate history and ancient societies
- #archaeology
- #el-nino
- #paleoclimate
- #peru
- #ancient-societies
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