Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Sugiyama, Saburo.

Title Human sacrifice, militarism, and rulership : materialization of state ideology at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan / Saburo Sugiyama
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series New studies in archaeology
New studies in archaeology.
Contents COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Introduction: cognition of state symbols and polity; 2 Background: data and ideation; 3 The Ciudadela and the city layout; 4 Architecture and sculpture; 5 Burials; 6 Offerings; 7 Overview: sacrificial and elite burials; 8 Conclusion: the Feathered Serpent Pyramid as symbol of sacrifice, militarism, and rulership; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary In the first two centuries AD, Teotihuacan was the largest urban centre in the New World and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid a spectacular symbol of state power. Sugiyama investigates the ritual sacrifices that marked the erection of the Pyramid and the role of warfare and sacrifice in early Teotihuacan statecraft
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Arizona State University, 1995
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Quetzalcoatl (Mesoamerican deity)
SUBJECT Quetzalcoatl (Mesoamerican deity) fast
Subject Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán -- Politics and government
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán -- Rites and ceremonies
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán -- Antiquities
Human sacrifice -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán
Indians -- Politics and government -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán
Indians -- Rites and ceremonies -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán
Indians -- Antiquities -- Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán
HISTORY.
Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Indians -- Politics and government
Indians -- Antiquities
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human remains (Archaeology)
Human sacrifice
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities
Indians of Mexico -- Politics and government
Indians of Mexico -- Rites and ceremonies
SUBJECT Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133958
San Juan Teotihuacán (Mexico) -- Antiquities
Subject Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán
Mexico -- San Juan Teotihuacán -- Teotihuacán Site
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004056819
ISBN 0511113250
9780511113253
9780511489563
0511489560
128041507X
9781280415074
9786610415076
6610415072