Did the Aztecs really practice human sacrifice?

Jon Hageman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University, discusses whether the Aztec performed human sacrifice.

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[cooks1234]

ok aside from the spanish who couldve lied connsidering they lied about the jews and arabs.can the guy give the name of the supposed temple those decapitated bodies were found?secondly can he give a source to the body that shows its rib bones were opened to get heart out? this would proof sacrifice happen.but no he hasnt and ive been having a hard time finding this proof so at the moment im still skeptical about this topic.

[funinthesnow12]

Aztec714ok, it's a fact that the Aztecs, Incans & other Amerindians had human sacrifices. What the actual # is may & will never be known, but the problem that often comes up when discussing American Indian history is the politically safe ideology of trying to say the Amerindians were peaceful savages when they weren't. American Indians incl. Aztecs had slavery, wars & human sacrifices-it wasn't paradise. We must end the Noble Savage myth.

[ACERTIXO2002]

Éste es el ejemplo de la estupidez de un tipo que no conoce la cultura nativa. Afirma que sí hubo sacrificios. Que prueba tiene? cuerpos que bien pudieron ser soldados muertos en una guerra. ¿Qué pensarán de aquí a mil años cuando encuentren los cuerpos de soldados muertos en la guerra? También saldrá otro imbécil como éste tipo a decir que hoy hacíamos sacrificios humanos. Éste pobre idiota no sabe que la idea del sacrificio humano fué producto de los estúpidos genocidas.

[aztec714ok]

liar the aztecs did not do human sacrifec lies of the spanish murderers

[1nesol78]

120 bodies for 3 centuries? and evidence provided by the spanish. The same people who burned all their books and massacred them. Dig deeper..

[HCFBEE]

The Pyramid pictured in the video is of Teotihuacan, estimated to be 1000 years older than those at Tenochtitlan. Just an FYI

[paulocesarrs]

Completion of the doctoral thesis of Dr. Phil. Peter Hassler (translated into Spanish), entitled: human sacrifice among the Aztecs? A study of sources and of ideology, University of Zurich, 1992, 478p:

... "For all this, my research result in the probability of the existence of institutionalized human sacrifice among the Mexica and other Indian peoples is so small that you can not say anything but these sacrifices were nonexistent."