[Aztlan] Follow up on Zapotec use of human femurs

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

National Geographic has a follow-up article on the practice of Zapotec  
males carrying human femurs as status symbols. There are a few new  
details in this article. A photo of a bas relief of a Zapotec carrying  
a human femur is posted. Joyce Marcus of the University of Michigan  
believes that this was a way to display dynastic continuity since  
relatives of the deceased carried these femurs. Each first born son  
was expected to brandish the femur of his father.

The National Geographic article is here;
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090715-zapotec-thighbones-femurs.html

A tiny URL;
http://tinyurl.com/nwl28j

Mike Ruggeri

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