Human sacrifice, militarism, and rulership : materialization of state ideology at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan / Saburo Sugiyama.
In the first two centuries AD, Teotihuacan was the largest urban centre in the New World and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid a spectacular symbol of state power. Sugiyama investigates the ritual sacrifices that marked the erection of the Pyramid and the role of warfare and sacrifice in early Teotihuac...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | New studies in archaeology.
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| Summary: | In the first two centuries AD, Teotihuacan was the largest urban centre in the New World and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid a spectacular symbol of state power. Sugiyama investigates the ritual sacrifices that marked the erection of the Pyramid and the role of warfare and sacrifice in early Teotihuacan statecraft. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Arizona State University, 1995. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511113250 9780511113253 9780511489563 0511489560 128041507X 9781280415074 9786610415076 6610415072 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |