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The “Hands of God” as Instruments of Death and Creation: Physicality, Embodiment, and Symbolism of Sacrificial Knives in Mesoamerica (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vera Tiesler. Guilhem Olivier.

This is an abstract from the "Sacrificial and Autosacrifice Instruments in Mesoamerica: Symbolism and Technology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this talk, we shall analyze sacrificial knives in Mesoamerica’s (bio) archaeological record, among written sources, and iconography. Our survey emphasizes the diversity of cutting weaponry through time and cultural spheres. By combining forensic evidence with the material study of sacrificial knives,...