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The skeletal material for this study are stored at the headquarters of the Department of Physical Anthropology of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City and were made available by Francisco Ortíz and Xabier Lizárraga, to whom I am grateful. I also wish to thank Jane Buikstra and Lane Beck for their useful comments and for making available valuable information on the Harvard collection from the Cenote Sagrado. I am indebted to Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina for extensively revising, editing, and proofreading previous versions of this manuscript and I am also grateful for the continuing support and friendship of Geoff Young Melisa French and Paul Soderberg, who provided invaluable proofreading assistance.
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AlanÍs, G.d. (2007). Sacrifice and Ritual Body Mutilation in Postclassical Maya Society: Taphonomy of the Human Remains from Chichén Itzá's Cenote Sagrado. In: Tiesler, V., Cucina, A. (eds) New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48871-4_8
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