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Multi-periodSite Name: Isla de Sacrificios
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 5.155 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Veracruz Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Vera Cruz
Latitude: 19.175000N  Longitude: 96.092W
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Isla de Sacrificios
Isla de Sacrificios submitted by bat400_photo : Tecali (tavertine) vessel with a figure wearing a feline mask. Postclassic period (AD 900-1521). Isla de Sacrificio.
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Ancient Temple in Veracruz.
During the era of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico it was reported that two temples stood on this island.

We found two stone buildings of good workmanship, each with a flight of steps leading up to a kind of altar, and on those altars were evil-looking idols, .... Here we found five Indians who had been sacrificed to them on that very night. Their chests had been struck open and their arms and thighs cut off, and the walls of these buildings were covered in blood. All this amazed us greatly, and we called this island the Isla de Sacrificios... - Bernal Díaz, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España.

By 1820 only the trace of ruins could be found, but many artifacts, appearing to have ritual use, have been excavated from the site and are stored at the British Museum today. The island itself is part of a marine santcuary and is not normally accessible to the general public.

Note: Women central part of pre-colonial Maya society. See comment
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Bernal Díaz - The Conquest of New Spain by davidmorgan on Sunday, 11 March 2012
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It's a good read. I've got a copy of the Penguin Classics translation.
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Women central part of pre-colonial Maya society by bat400 on Sunday, 11 March 2012
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Contrary to popular belief, women played a central role in Maya society before the arrival of Spanish explorers in the early 16th century, a University of California, Riverside, graduate student has discovered.The finding is significant for modern Mayan women, whose status in society rapidly diminished under Spanish colonial rule and remains so today, according to Shankari Patel, a doctoral candidate in anthropology.

Patel’s groundbreaking research, which included extensive fieldwork in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and an examination of previously uncatalogued artifacts in the British Museum, has won her the 2011 Dissertation Award from the American Anthropological Association’s American Feminist Association and the AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship. Patel expects to complete her dissertation, “Journey to the East: Pilgrimage, Politics, and Gender at Postclassic Yucatan,” and graduate in June.

The AFA described her reinterpretation of the archaeology and history of the Maya as “compelling.”
Patel discovered that thousands of religious and other artifacts of Maya society were removed from the region, beginning with Spanish explorers who arrived in 1512, and later by British sailors. More than 2,000 objects from Isla Sacrificios, a small island off the coast of Vera Cruz that she contends was part of a female deity pilgrimage network in use from about 1100 to 1500, were delivered to the British Museum in 1844 and remained in crates. Fewer than a dozen of those items had been published or displayed in the museum. “We excavate so much, but not all of it gets analyzed,” she said.

After receiving permission from museum administrators and with research funding from UC MEXUS (University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States), Patel began a methodical examination of mountains of crates in a scene she likened to “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” She found hundreds of spindle whorls — ceramic disks typically used for spinning and weaving, but in this case used in religious rituals — as well as female icons and figurines used in funerary rituals.

Artifacts at the British Museum and elsewhere in Europe provide evidence of the central role women played in Maya society before colonialization, Patel said, including priestess oracles along the Yucatan Peninsula’s east coast.

“Women lost their status and authority with the advent of colonialism,” she said. “The Spaniards didn’t understand female leaders and they squashed pagan religions. They branded women healers and diviners as witches.

“Our society is so patriarchal, and archaeologists often don’t realize how that affects the way they look at the past. What we say about the past is important to the people who live there today. It’s political how you talk about people in the past. If you say women are subjugated today because they always have been, that’s a way of justifying what’s happening today. If you can show that was not true, that it happened because of colonialism, there is opportunity for new interpretations of history and for change to occur.”
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