International audience"This study reports a detailed analysis of artificial modifications observed on a collection of human bone artifacts from Carl Lumholtz's nineteenth-century excavations at El Palacio, Michoacán. The data obtained confirm that they were used as musical rasps called omichicahuaztli in Nahuatl and also provide new interpretations of their acquisition, manufacture, and abandonment processes. Cut marks indicate that the bones were taken from fresh cadavers of at least eight individuals, possibly sacrificial victims. Regarding manufacture and use of these instruments, important variations are observed and suggest that different persons could have manipulated them. Finally, it is possible to demonstrate that most of the instr...
An intact Maya royal tomb from the Classic period (700 A.D.) has been recently discovered in the arc...
The practice of displaying human remains as trophies is one that has been present in the Americas si...
The presence of skull cups (bowls made from human calvaria) is considered evidence of the ritualisti...
International audience"This study reports a detailed analysis of artificial modifications observed o...
During prehispanic times (1250 B.P. - 1521 A.D), Mesoamerica was the most powerful nation in the ent...
The present study provides a new osteological model for the procedures employed in human heart sacri...
In this paper we present the interdisciplinary study of human notched bone idiophones (called omichi...
bone implements, crafts organization This work represents an attempt to provide an answer, through a...
International audienceWe report on the analysis of three human cranial fragments from a Mousterian c...
The present bioarchaeological and taphonomic investigation focuses on the skeletal remains deposited...
Summary. — In the last twenty years, the study of intentional modifications on human bones has devel...
Late Holocene hunter-gatherers from the lower Paraná River basin presented complex mortuary practice...
The dental mutilation was a cultural practice in Mesoamerica, being accepted that it was used to re-...
The discovery of an unlooted shaft tomb in Southern Zacatecas, Mexico, offered an undisturbed exampl...
International audienceIn prehispanic Mesoamerica, bone was a broadly recovered raw material for the ...
An intact Maya royal tomb from the Classic period (700 A.D.) has been recently discovered in the arc...
The practice of displaying human remains as trophies is one that has been present in the Americas si...
The presence of skull cups (bowls made from human calvaria) is considered evidence of the ritualisti...
International audience"This study reports a detailed analysis of artificial modifications observed o...
During prehispanic times (1250 B.P. - 1521 A.D), Mesoamerica was the most powerful nation in the ent...
The present study provides a new osteological model for the procedures employed in human heart sacri...
In this paper we present the interdisciplinary study of human notched bone idiophones (called omichi...
bone implements, crafts organization This work represents an attempt to provide an answer, through a...
International audienceWe report on the analysis of three human cranial fragments from a Mousterian c...
The present bioarchaeological and taphonomic investigation focuses on the skeletal remains deposited...
Summary. — In the last twenty years, the study of intentional modifications on human bones has devel...
Late Holocene hunter-gatherers from the lower Paraná River basin presented complex mortuary practice...
The dental mutilation was a cultural practice in Mesoamerica, being accepted that it was used to re-...
The discovery of an unlooted shaft tomb in Southern Zacatecas, Mexico, offered an undisturbed exampl...
International audienceIn prehispanic Mesoamerica, bone was a broadly recovered raw material for the ...
An intact Maya royal tomb from the Classic period (700 A.D.) has been recently discovered in the arc...
The practice of displaying human remains as trophies is one that has been present in the Americas si...
The presence of skull cups (bowls made from human calvaria) is considered evidence of the ritualisti...