Review of Aztec Human Sacrifice: Cross-Cultural Assessments of The Ecological Hypothesis Introduction The article “Aztec Human Sacrifice: Cross-Cultural Assessments of the Ecological Hypothesis” by Michael Winkelman (1998), published in the anthropological journal Ethnology, studies and analyzes the reasons for human sacrifices conducted by the Aztec civilization since 1750 B.C. With the aid of systematic cross-cultural analysis, a multitude of recent works by various authors is compared in order
Mayan Disappearance The fall of the Maya is one of history's extraordinary puzzles. One of the mightiest civic establishments in the old Americas essentially fell into ruin in a brief time. Powerful urban communities like Tikal were surrendered and Maya stonemasons quit making sanctuaries and stelae. The dates are not in uncertainty: deciphered glyphs at a few locales demonstrate a flourishing society in the ninth century A.d., yet the record goes shockingly noiseless after the keep going recorded