Additional lab work will determine if there was any sort of relation between the individuals buried and the owners of the additional body parts.
One suggestion is that the extra limbs may have served as a sacrificial offering to accompany the dead to the afterlife. The individuals who had suffered trauma were also most likely to have been buried with additional limbs, says Campaña.Īt this time, the archaeologists can only speculate about the motivation behind the unusual Virú burials.
Preliminary study indicates that many sets of remains show evidence of trauma, including cut marks and blunt-force injury.
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