archaeoblogs:Notes on a Sacrifice SceneSource: bit.ly/1uBBEyN by David Stuart, The University
archaeoblogs:Notes on a Sacrifice SceneSource: http://bit.ly/1uBBEyN by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin The Late Classic cacao vase K8719 (from Justin Kerr’s The Maya Vase Database) depicts one of the more grisly scenes of human sacrifice known from Maya art. (Happy Halloween!). The surrounding imagery and texts provide some interesting tidbits of information about the timing and setting of such events, and also how they related to the pomp and circumstance of royal performance in the courts of the Classic era. (image)Figure 1. Rollout of vase K8719 (Photograph by Justin Kerr). In the scene we see a king seated upon what looks to be a………. Read MoreRead and find more great archaeology blogs at: Archaeology Blog Project -- source link