[Aztlan] A Speculation on a Sacrifice at Teotihuacán

[David Hixson]

--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Mary Hopkins <mhopkins at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Actually, many of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid burials were
> wearing 
> necklaces of maxillae.
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For those interested, I have a photo of an INAH display of these Teotihuacan Feathered Serpent Pyramid burials online at:

http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~dhixson/teo/featheredserpent5.html

And I was equally struck as Justin was that these human offerings required more jaw bones than they had available, thus some effigy jaw bones were created to hang around the necks of these individuals.

-Dave