Divine Food and the Warriors of Curicaueri

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the Tarascan cosmovision, feeding the gods daily, especially Curicaueri, was vital because it ensured that the world would continue to function; this food was the human sacrifice. At the foot of the platform, one of the most significant pieces of evidence of this act of surrender to the gods was found, where an enormous number of human bones were recovered. These were part of the structural base of an important political-religious precinct, dating from the Late Postclassic period, during the apogee of the Tarascan Lordship. Therefore, this research seeks to know the number of individuals that were part of the osteological collection of the Tzintzuntzan Ossuary found at the Great Platform, on the northeast side. The accounting will be carried out by the implementation of geophysical studies and different methods of numerical estimation from physical anthropology, bioarchaeology, and mechanics of materials.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37487.0