TY - BOOK
T1 - Human sacrifice, militarism, and rulership
T2 - Materialization of state ideology at the feathered serpent pyramid, teotihuacan
AU - Sugiyama, Saburo
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PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - Teotihuacan was the largest urban center in the New World in the first two centuries AD, and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid was a spectacular symbol of state power. Saburo Sugiyama investigates the ritual sacrifice of some 200 men and women that marked the erection of the Pyramid in this volume, the first substantial archaeological analysis of the political institutions of Teotihuacan based on stratigraphically recorded evidence. In the process, he illuminates our understanding of urbanization, the ritual behavior of elites, and the role of warfare and sacrifice in early Teotihuacan statecraft.
AB - Teotihuacan was the largest urban center in the New World in the first two centuries AD, and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid was a spectacular symbol of state power. Saburo Sugiyama investigates the ritual sacrifice of some 200 men and women that marked the erection of the Pyramid in this volume, the first substantial archaeological analysis of the political institutions of Teotihuacan based on stratigraphically recorded evidence. In the process, he illuminates our understanding of urbanization, the ritual behavior of elites, and the role of warfare and sacrifice in early Teotihuacan statecraft.
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U2 - 10.1017/CBO9780511489563
DO - 10.1017/CBO9780511489563
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85010338467
SN - 052178056X
SN - 9780521780568
BT - Human sacrifice, militarism, and rulership
PB - Cambridge University Press
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