A tzompantli (Nahuatl pronunciation: [t͡somˈpant͡ɬi]) or skull rack was a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations...
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As of 2020, archaeologists have found 603 human skulls at the Hueyi Tzompantli in the archeological zone of the Templo Mayor. A wide variety of interpretations...
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[citation needed] The Kichwa-Lamista people in Peru used to be headhunters. A tzompantli is a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican...
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Calixtlahuaca (section Tzompantli)
in a plaza, with a cross altar decorated with skulls, or mesoamerican tzompantli. At the north side of the plaza is another structure. This cross altar...
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Tzompantli, or Skull Platform (Plataforma de los Cráneos), shows the clear cultural influence of the central Mexican Plateau. Unlike the tzompantli of...
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Art with ideological and political meaning: depiction of an Aztec tzompantli (skull-rack) from the Ramirez Codex...
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Aircraft boneyard Charnel house Columbarium Crypt Mausoleum Sarcophagus Tzompantli Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ossuaries. "What is an ossuary...
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Several Mesoamerican cultures used a skull-rack (known by its Nahuatl term, tzompantli), on which skulls were impaled in rows or columns of wooden stakes. Even...
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An excavated tzompantli from the Templo Mayor in modern-day Mexico City...
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in the Spanish War of Independence against Napoleon than to the Mexica tzompantli. The recent trans-Atlantic connection can also be observed in the pervasive...
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