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Classic Maya Bloodletting and the Cultural Evolution of Religious Rituals: Quantifying Patterns of Variation in Hieroglyphic Texts

Figure 5

Relative frequency of dated monuments with ch’ahb’ bloodletting glyph in each 20-year k’atun period.

References to bloodletting rituals exceed 15% during two k’atun periods, 9.8.0.0.0 (593–613 CE) and 9.13.0.0.0 (692–712 CE).

Figure 5

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107982.g005