Aztec human sacrifice: cross-cultural assessments of the ecological hypothesis.

From: Ethnology | Date: June 22, 1998| Author: Winkelman, Michael | Copyright information

Cross-culture assessments of ecological, religious, and social predictors of human sacrifice have been the focus of many publications on Aztec life. A range of measures such as social complexity variables, agricultural potential, and environmental circumscription show how the relationship between religious and social complexity conditions illustrate the relevance of human sacrifice.

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