[Aztlan] cases of dismemberment/defleshing in Mesoamerica?

[Oralia Cabrera]

Hi Matt,

For evidence from the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, and the Pyramid of the Moon
ritual deposits at Teotihuacan you may see:

Spence, Michael W., Christine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Kimberley R.
Law
    2004    Victims of the Victims: Human Trophies Worn by Sacrificed
Soldiers from the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan. Ancient
Mesoamerica 15(1):1-15.

Spence, Michael W., and Grégory Pereira
    2007    The Human Skeletal Remains of the Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan.
Ancient Mesoamerica 18(1):147-157.


For the Northwestern Mesoamerican frontier:

Pérez R., Ventura, Ben A. Nelson, and Debra L. Martin
    2008    Veneration or Violence? A Study of Variations in Human Bone
Modification at La Quemada. In Social Violence in the Prehispanic American
Southwest, edited by D. L. Nichols and P. L. Crown, pp. 123-142. University
of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Best regards,

Oralia


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Oralia Cabrera C.
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University