The man died at a relatively young age, between 17 and 20 years of age, at some point during the 13th century and was buried ...

Ritual artifacts recovered alongside the bones — such as obsidian blades and red ochre, a naturally-occurring rust-colored pigment — provide further evidence that some sort of ceremony took ...

“In Maya ritual, body parts are just as valuable as the whole body.” Bleuze and her colleague, forensic anthropologist Ellen Fricano, believe that the signs of violence on the bones are the ...

The hollow bones were turned into ancient snuff tubes, and were found in stone chambers inside a prehistoric ritual site. It's called Chavín de Huántar, a ceremonial site high up in the ...