New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society
Publication year: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-48871-4
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This book dispels those myths by bringing together an international group of both well-established scholars and accredited young experts in the field to provide a fresh, objective look at ritual violence in the Mayan realm from an academic perspective. These experts offer examine new evidence of of human sacrifice in Classic and Postclassic period sites like Calakmul and the Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itz, as well as cave contexts from Belize.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Bioarchaeology, Maya sacrifice, Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican culture, Ritual, ancient Maya society, human sacrifice, material culture, mayans, posthumous body manipulation, ritual body treatments, ritual practice, taphonic research
