Different anthropological or other sources have attempted to provide a possible ecological explanation of the need for human sacrifices to supplement overall Aztec diet. Harner's main argument lies within his claim that cannibalism is needed to assist the diet of the Aztecs.

2018年10月11日 · In addition to slicing out the hearts of victims and spilling their blood on temple altars, the Aztecs likely also practiced a form of ritual cannibalism.

In early 1521, the year after the Aztecs captured and cannibalized a convoy of dozens of Spaniards and hundreds of allied Indigenous people, Spanish forces responded by massacring Aztec women...

3 天之前 · First, while the Spanish invaders surely exaggerated the magnitude, frequency, and ferocity of Aztec sacrifice (Durán, for example, seemed to revel in anything especially bloody); a large amount of material and historical evidence supports cannibalism as a long-term, wide-spread indigenous practice.

As the nature of Aztec cannibalism is poorly known, this paper examines the extent to which it was practiced and the motives behind it. Using the methodology of documentary research I have determined that the Aztecs did in fact engage in cannibalism, specifically ritual and gustatory cannibalism, however, the extent of it is indefinite.

2020年2月4日 · Here are 10 facts about ritual human sacrifice in the Aztec Empire. 1. It was first recorded by the Spanish colonists. Documentation of Aztec human sacrifice and cannibalism mainly dates from the period after the Spanish conquest.

Aztecs sacrificing a victim and bleeding their tongue and ears. There is universal agreement that some Mesoamerican people practiced human sacrifice followed by cannibalism. Still, there is a lack of scholarly consensus on how widespread the latter practice was.

2024年5月26日 · After the sacrifice, the bodies of the victims would often be dismembered and their flesh consumed in a ritual act of cannibalism known as teoqualo, or "god-eating." This practice was believed to transfer the divine essence of the sacrificed individual to those who consumed their flesh (Carrasco, 2000).

Based on studies of population pressure, Harner (1970) suggests that the unparalleled scope of Aztec human sacrifice and cannibalism resulted from demographic-ecological factors which created protein shortages and population pressure: unfavorable agricultural conditions, seasonal crop failures, the lack of domesticated herbivores, the depletion ...

2021年9月25日 · Until then, it was said that the human sacrifices of the Aztecs were sporadic, that cannibalism was even more so and that that wall of human remains, if it existed, was composed only of the heads of warriors captured in battle and that the objective of its exhibition on a wall was intimidation.