>>18114725
cont:
>>18114548
Flower wars likely had as much use as pragmatic military/geopolitical tools as they did as a way to get captives, as argued by hassig, smith, etc, see:
https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/58096307/#58178924 In general I favor a more pragmatic interpretation of Aztec militarism then a ritually driven one since most researchers lean that way, and the evidence that the Mexica ever actually specifically
>>18114560
Maybe there were 70 child skulls in the analyzed remains of the Huey Tzompantli, but that research found ~5% of skulls were from children and the rack seems to have held around ~16,000 skulls, not including the two skull towers (which are where the analyzed skulls are from). So the actual amount of sacrificed children would likely be like 800-1200+, emphasis on the "+" since we don't know how tall the towers were and they may not have contained earlier periods of deposits, though I do know from Lopez Lujan saying so that at least some of the skulls in the rack or towers were deposited prior to Ahuizotl's reign, which is when most of the deposits were
>>18114615
The Keeley graph here is nonense btw, the methodology for the Aztec figure is terrible, if people are curious I can post about it later if I have time. Keep in mind that while Zumárraga's 20k estimate is across a wider area then just tenochtitlan or even the aztec empire, and so is Harner's inflated total via borah/cook, there is a 20,000-80,000 estimate range for the 1487 reconsecreation of the great temple (for ahuizotl's coronation, the event where the huey tzompantli in the form we excavated it was probably made), but the rack's scale disproves those figures.
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>>18114633
None of the posts above you are from me, though one of the anons is basically remixing prior posts of mine
2/2 for now
