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Mortuary practices among the Aztec in the light of ethnohistorical and archaeological sources

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  • Mortuary practices among the Aztec in the light of ethnohistorical and archaeological sources

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    Mortuary practices among the Aztec in the light of ethnohistorical and archaeological sources

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This paper deals with one particular aspect of the so-called 'death cult' among the Aztecs, which concerns the disposal of the dead and the supernatural and cosmological ideology behind it.

Keywords: mortuary practice, Aztec, burial, ethnohistory

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Iguaz, D., (1993) “Mortuary practices among the Aztec in the light of ethnohistorical and archaeological sources”, Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 4(1), 63-76. doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/pia.45

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1993-11-15

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