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Chichén Itza, the Mercado, before 1200, plan and elevation

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Description: The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya and Andean Peoples
Chichén Itza, the metropolitan centre of civilization in Yucatán, was under foreign domination until the thirteenth century. Foreigners, some resident there since Early Classic time as at Dzibilchaltun or Acanceh, began to rule in Yucatán perhaps as early as the eighth century. The worship of a feathered serpent god of Mexican origin, the Mexican manner of human sacrifice by heart excision, with skull racks to display the sacrificial victims, and many other Mexican highland traits support …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.287-322
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00123.014

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