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Originally Posted by sonicpixie
could be i guess, but arent they just looking too hard and wanting to see things?
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thats how I feel about sacrifice. Our Judeo-Christian Euro-Western-American backgrounds are biased. We learn in school from 5 years old this kind of lies and exaggerations, then we go to college and become archaeological grad students, we go do a dig with some professors who think they know everything, and we carry their assumptions. We look so hard for sacrifice, we think we find it, but why are we looking in the first place? Because the SPANISH said so, and the academic world trusts the racist, imperialists, murderous spaniards over the indigenous folks everytime!
take an example from this recent article:
"This new discovery at Tula is of a tomb containing two dozen sacrificed children. They appear to have been sacrificed between AD 950 and 1150, during the Toltec Golden Age. Apparently all but one of them were between the ages of five and 15.
Why do archaeologists think they were sacrificed? For one thing, the ritualistic manner in which the skeletons are placed together indicates sacrifice, plus cut marks on their bones are consistent with it. And within the tomb an idol of Tlaloc, worshipped as a rain god, was found, which could provide motive for the sacrifice."
Really? Why do the bodies have to be sacrificed? couldn't they be ceremonious without having to have been killed? perhaps they all died in a accident together? perhaps they are the childern who died of natural causes over a period of time and were ceremoniously burried together in memoriam. why do the cuts have to be in relation to sacrifice? Couldn't they simply be funerary? BIAS BIAS BIAS. My bias is that I don't trust the spanish or the establishment.