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A mass sacrifice of children and camelids at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site, Moche Valley, Peru

  • Gabriel Prieto ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: gabrielprietobur@gmail.com

    Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Trujillo, Peru

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6229-986X

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  • John W. Verano,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United Sates of America

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  • Nicolas Goepfert,

    Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation CNRS, UMR 8096 Archéologie des Amériques (CNRS-Paris1), Nanterre, France

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6155-1856

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  • Douglas Kennett,

    Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

    Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Penn State College of the Liberal Arts, University Park, PA, United States of America

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  • Jeffrey Quilter,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources

    Affiliation Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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  • Steven LeBlanc,

    Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources

    Affiliation Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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  • Lars Fehren-Schmitz,

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation UCSC Paleogenomics Laboratories, Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5510-1114

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  • Jannine Forst,

    Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

    Affiliation UCSC Paleogenomics Laboratories, Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

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  • Mellisa Lund,

    Roles Formal analysis

    Affiliation Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR), Miraflores, Lima-Peru

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  • Brittany Dement,

    Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

    Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United Sates of America

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  • Elise Dufour,

    Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

    Affiliation Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, CNRS, Paris, France

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  • Olivier Tombret,

    Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

    Affiliation Sorbonne Universités, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, CNRS, Paris, France

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  • Melina Calmon,

    Roles Formal analysis

    Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United Sates of America

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7622-4460

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  • Davette Gadison,

    Roles Formal analysis

    Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United Sates of America

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  • Khrystyne Tschinkel

    Roles Formal analysis

    Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United Sates of America

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A mass sacrifice of children and camelids at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site, Moche Valley, Peru

  • Gabriel Prieto, 
  • John W. Verano, 
  • Nicolas Goepfert, 
  • Douglas Kennett, 
  • Jeffrey Quilter, 
  • Steven LeBlanc, 
  • Lars Fehren-Schmitz, 
  • Jannine Forst, 
  • Mellisa Lund, 
  • Brittany Dement
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  • Published: March 6, 2019
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211691
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