“For the crania without trauma, we cannot be certain they were sacrificed. It’s quite possible that some of the retainers were sacrificed, while others were not,” she said. “With such a small sample size of the original burial population, we simply can’t see the full extent of these funerary rituals, nor can we be sure that this sample is truly representative of all the retainers.”

I wonder what caused the cranial fractures. They weren’t sure and idk about yall but I’d rather have some extreme “no way he lived through that” head trauma if I were being sacrificed, not a little bonk that could still hurt like hell