Geographic identities of the sacrificial victims from the feathered serpent pyramid, Teotihuacan: Implications for the nature of state power

Latin American Antiquity

Volumn 13, Issue PART 2, 2002, Pages 217-236

  White, Christine D ^a   Spence, Michael W ^a   Longstaffe, Fred J ^a   Stuart Williams, Hilary ^b   Law, Kimberley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 3342952280     PISSN: 10456635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/971915     Document Type: Article

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