Posted on 10/11/2022 7:55:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Belize's Midnight Terror Cave is still leaving clues about more than 100 people who were sacrificed to the Maya rain god there more than a millennium ago.
Used for burial during the Maya Classic period (A.D. 250 to 925), the cave was named by locals who were called to rescue an injured looter in 2006. A three-year excavation project by California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) professors and students concluded that the more than 10,000 bones uncovered in the cave represented at least 118 people, many of whom had evidence of trauma inflicted on them around the time of death.
To dive deeper into the victims' final moments...nvestigating the calcified plaque from their teeth, known as dental calculus. The study, published Sept. 20 in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology(opens in new tab), describes curious blue fibers clinging to the teeth of at least two of the victims.
Dental calculus can preserve microscopic pieces of food that someone ate — such as pollen grains, starches and phytoliths, which are mineralized parts of plants — so Chan scraped the gunk off six teeth and sent it to study co-author Linda Scott Cummings(opens in new tab), president and CEO of the PaleoResearch Institute in Golden, Colorado. Scott Cummings found that the samples contained primarily cotton fibers and that several of those were dyed bright blue.
"The discovery of blue cotton fibers in both samples was a surprise," Chan said, because "blue is important in Maya ritual.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Floss
Perhaps blue cloths were stuffed in their mouths to muffle the screaming..
I think that may be it.
Although floss is the apparent answer, I’m thinking silly string.
BSOD?........................
(Yes, I'm making this up...)
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/sarc
The Woke Prog Socialist Democrat Party is older than we thought.
Ping
LOL
We went to Belize on a cruise in 2018 ..
During a shore excursion at a Mayan temple, we were assured that the Mayans were loving and kind to strangers and friends alike and never killed anyone and those dark stains at the top was not old blood ..
After suffering through a long explanation on how the horrible rumors of human sacrifice got started about the innocent wee savages, we just rolled our eyes at each other and turned away to snicker at the idiocy ..
Oh bad us ...
:)
what you did there, I see it
I liked that movie once the chase started.
That broad faced fellow in the back looks like a Sontaran.
'Movin' to Montana soon......"
I’ve seen that movie 2-3 times. Big time thriller!
Gags.
My first thought, too. They were gagged with a blue cloth.
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