ARKY 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Flower War, Tzompantli, Mesoamerican Chronology
8 May 2018
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▪ To form small dots, in the shape of deity
▪ It was a form of cannibalism
o Spanish banned this, which adversely effected their diet and health
o Pot irrigations on piedmont slopes
o Maize, beans and squash
• Meat products
o Domesticated dog and turkey, wild game, fish and ducks from the lake
o Axolotl, they have the ability to regenerate
▪ Ideal of the origin of the feather serpent deity
o Larvae of moos was used in soup
o They used salamander in their meals
• Aztec: human Cannibalism?
o Spanish accounts of cannibalism including recipe for Spanish stew
o Highly controversial topic
o Argued that aialis as used to produe a pool of eat ad that’s hy Azte eer
wanted to be conquered the people on the basin
▪ Example- Cholula, but there were invited for the flower war which was to
capture people for sacrifice
▪ It was argued to keep of stock of people
o All eidee oe fro Spaish aouts, that’s the prole Spaish ste, hoeer
how strong is the issue
o Codex maliabechiano 58, it showed taking the heart of people and they fall down the
stairs and would be consumed of
o Cannibalism in codex Borgia – people are showed in a hot tube people being cooked in a
stew pot
o Codex Magliabechaiano 61 – feasting on a body
o Florentine codex also had images of cannibalism
o Las casas
▪ Believed that the atie people, had souls ad did’t e slaed
o Had many anti- Spanish images
• Archaeological evidence of Cannibalism
o Zultepec located outside the basin of Mexico, it was a town in post-classic period
o After the Spanish conquest, to form a brothel in Mexico City
▪ Women from Africa, Caribbean etc
▪ Zultepec people started to sacrifice them
▪ This was shown in a skull rack
o DNA evidence supports this idea that it was the lady of the brothel
o Bone cluster at Zultepec- had the evidence that is associated with cannibalism and
horses remains were found
o They found evidence of cages that were the captures were likelihood stored
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