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Aztec Militarism and Blood Sacrifice: The Archaeology and Ideology of Ritual Violence
Title | Aztec Militarism and Blood Sacrifice: The Archaeology and Ideology of Ritual Violence |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | MENDOZA, R. G. |
Editor | CHACON, R. J., and R. G. MENDOZA |
Book Title | Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence |
City | Tucson AZ |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 34-54 |
Publication Language | English |
ISBN Number | 978-0816525270 |
Abstract | J. Whittaker: Revisionist efforts attempt to refute accounts of Aztec sacrifice as “racist, colonialist” etc. But our understanding of large-scale sacrifice not based only on Spanish accounts, also arch evidence of ritual violence - experiments in heart excision, serological study of deposits, forensic analysis of skeletal remains, including numerous sites with evidence of peri-mortem mutilation and cannibalism, 170 crania from tsompantli skull rack at Tlatelolco associated with stone tools used to prep heads, etc. |
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