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By nonesuch
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If the Aztecs are known for anything it's their step-pyrmids and the 24/7 human sacrifices. A Marxist friend of mine insists the sacrifices were a main food source and the two highest honors of the Aztec warrior.(to take prisoners in battle for the sacrifices or to be taken prisoner for the sacrifices) was state propaganda. Does anyone here know if the sacrifices involved cannibalism and if so was it alimentary or ritual?
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By killim
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The video material from that age is really bad.

On a more serious side: The bones did not show the typical scratches of cannibalism. However there remains the opportunity for ritual cannibalism (like eating the heart or other soft tissue only), without leaving the marks for traditional cannibalism. The 550 ritual victims from Zultepec afaik show such signs of ritual cannibalism. Iirc the current name of the nearby town still translates "Here where they have eaten them"
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nonesuch wrote:If the Aztecs are known for anything it's their step-pyrmids and the 24/7 human sacrifices. A Marxist friend of mine insists the sacrifices were a main food source and the two highest honors of the Aztec warrior.(to take prisoners in battle for the sacrifices or to be taken prisoner for the sacrifices) was state propaganda. Does anyone here know if the sacrifices involved cannibalism and if so was it alimentary or ritual?


The hypothesis that Aztec ritual sacrifice & cannibalism was a primary or secondary means of supplementing their diet is patently false. It is based on ideas popularized in the 1940s and 1950s by a particular anthropologist I can't remember the name of, but it isn't true at all. The Aztecs and indeed Mesoamericans in general had a plethora of food options and a burgeoning agricultural base.
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