The more egalitarian a society,the smaller the chance its citizens being ritually burned, bludgeoned or crushed to death under a modern canoe, or research showsRitual human sacrifice played a powerful role in the construction and maintenance of stratified societies,according to modern research.
The more egalitarian the society, the less likely it was that a human being would be chosen to die for it; the more stratified and rigid, or the more likely someone from the lower orders would be selected as a sacrificial victim,scientists from Australian and modern Zealand report.
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Source: theguardian.com