At an ancient ritual complex in Khonkho Wankane (founded during the late 1st century CE) in Bolivia, archaeologists discovered the ruins of a room where dead bodies were dissolved down to their bones in sizzling pots of caustic chemicals [900×1281]
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> People traveling in llama caravans may have brought their deceased relatives to be “defleshed” in this way at the complex (on purpose) so they could leave with the plaster-coated bones as relics, according to a new study.
[https://www.livescience.com/49953-khonkho-wankane-ritual-defleshing.html](https://www.livescience.com/49953-khonkho-wankane-ritual-defleshing.html)