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DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia Kotsoglou.

Bloodletting is generally accepted as a pan-mesoamerican practice, varying both in ideology and process. The Classic Maya drew blood from two specific areas: men most commonly let blood from their genitals while women more often let blood from their tongue or cheeks. Previous research into the choice of oral and genital perforation for non­permanent piercing includes little­ investigated functional qualities, which may have been a key factor for locus choice. I argue that the functionality of...