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Child sacrifice in pre-Columbian cultures

Early colonial Spanish missionaries wrote about this practice but only recently have archaeologists such as Johan Reinhard begun to find the bodies of these victims on Andean mountaintops, naturally mummified due to the freezing temperatures and dry windy mountain air.

Licancabur Lake

While undertaking archaeological research on the summit in 1981, Johan Reinhard free dove the lake; he returned in 1982 with Charles Brush and three other divers and scuba dived in the lake, setting an unofficial world record for the highest ever altitude dive.

Llullaillaco

During 1983–1985, American archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard directed three surveys of archaeological sites on the summit and slopes of the mountain.

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