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Illustration of ritualised human sacrifice in traditional Hawaiian culture, as documented by the French explorer and artists Jaques Arago in 1819. Arago, Jacques. (1822). Promenade autour du monde: pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du roi l’Uranie et la Physicienne, commandées par M. Freycinet

Why did early human societies practice violent human sacrifice?

Joseph Watts, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Human sacrifice seems horrifying and costly. But there might be a reason so many early human societies practiced it.

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