[decimon]

The plaza served as a social and ritual space where ancient peoples celebrated their "thoughts about the world, their place within it, and images of their world and themselves," Fuchs said.

In an adjacent structure, built around 1800 B.C., Fuchs' team uncovered a 3,600-year-old adobe frieze — six feet tall — depicting the iconic image of a human sacrificer "standing with open arms, holding a ritual knife in one hand and a human head in the other," Fuchs said.

You can think about the world and your place in it but it's the guy with the knife who decides.

[decimon]

Head in hand ping.

[kinoxi]

Are they calling this Olmec?

[Little Bill]

There is a web site dedicated to the "Lords of Sipan", blood drinking and ritual sacrifice at its best. There is some good stuff if you search Moche Iconography.

This is dedicated to my Idol Marja Gumbatus who thought the world was a peaceful place.

[LexBaird]

Why is it that anytime an archeologist finds someting, he assumes it is “ceremonial”? Is the town square in front of any random Euro cathedal “ceremonial”, or just an open place?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I’m wearing my standby pair of glasses at the moment so I first read this as “Ancient Ceremonial Pizza”....thinking, “hmmm, with coca and guanaco?”

[SunkenCiv]

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[Burma Jones]

5000 years of pre-Columbian history and it was human sacrifice from first to last? Gross.

When guys like Cortez and Pizarro can make a credible claim to be enlightened liberators, there’s something wrong with your civilization. Of course, the vivisection should have been a dead giveaway. So to speak.