Study reveals evidence of violence at a time of crisis in ancient Peru (IMAGE)

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Study reveals evidence of violence at a time of crisis in ancient Peru

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Various traumatic injuries in one of the individuals studied: a) perimortem penetrating fracture in right parietal produced by blunt force trauma; b) cut mark in right superciliary arch relating to sharp force trauma, and perimortem injury relating to stone flake, which remains embedded in right wall of nasal pyriform aperture; c) healed linear penetrating fracture and cut marks in left zygomatic bone relating to sharp-blunt force trauma, and healed nasal fracture 

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Luis Pezo-Lanfranco

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