“…Their remains show violent deaths, such as a machete or sword cut to the face that cleanly removed the left side of a lower jawbone, a machete cut to a leg, a fall or blunt force trauma to the head, and scalping or flesh removal on the head with a metal knife (Cucina et al . 2015). This violence probably stemmed from local indigenous conflicts over the shifts in trade and the acquisition of metal tools, demarcation of agricultural land in a contested region, changes in demography and social organisation and political transformations following economic and demographic changes during the Spanish Colonial period (Hill 1996).…”