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In 1586, Juan de Morales Vinencio wrote how he and his fellow Spaniards came across the remains of a sacrificial victim the Lacandon Maya had eaten. He wrote that they found the body of a young boy, whose left forearm was stripped of flesh from the wrist to the elbow. Later, they found a Spanish soldier’s body in the same condition.

In the ruins of the Late Post-Classic Maya community of San Gervasio on Cozumel Island, archaeologists discovered a deposit of butchered human bones under a platform. The feet and hands had been sawn away from the meat-bearing limbs.