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Abstract
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Scaffidi BK, Tung TA. Endemic violence in a pre-Hispanic Andean community: A bioarchaeological study of cranial trauma from the Majes Valley, Peru. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2020 Jun;172(2):246-269.
doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24005. Epub 2020 Jan 14. PMID: 31943137.
The authors wish to amend the figure caption for Figure 3, which should state: Tracings of petroglyphs from near the Uraca cemetery, generated using DStretch by Jon Harman. This is an open-source plugin to the free and open source Image J software, commonly used to perform decorrelation stretching in various false color composites of rock art to enhance lines otherwise invisible in RGB images (e.g., Quesada & Harman, 2019).
The original photos were taken by Scaffidi during Proyecto Arqueológico Uraca, which she directed. Here we include the DStretched images (see Figure 1), which reveal the lines that were traced in the original images published as Figure 3. Both panels are well-known among Majes Valley inhabitants and are still present at their respective sites for interested observers to visit and conduct their own image analysis and interpretations. The authors suggest that the figures are holding human trophy heads in their right hands, an interpretation based on Nuñez Jimenéz (1986) and the authors' own bioarchaeological and archaeological research in the region. Readers are encouraged to examine the DStretched images below, along with the tracings that were in the original article and evaluate on their own whether they agree with our interpretation that those are trophy heads or not.
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