New archeological evidence proves that the China’s Western Zhou dynasty dabbled in human sacrifice roughly 2,700 years ago.
“In general, there’s been a tendency to describe Western Zhou as a more humanistic period, when the practice of human sacrifices”—which were commonplace during the preceding Shang Dynasty—”were waning,” Sena said.
“But I think the archaeological evidence shows quite clearly that human sacrifices persisted throughout the Zhou period as well.”
So now we know.
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