Human Sacrifice, Militarism, and Rulership - Materialization of State Ideology at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, Teotihuacan

By the third century AD, Teotihuacan had become the largest urban centre in the New World and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid a spectacular symbol of state power. Sugiyama investigates the ritual sacrifices that marked the erection of the Pyramid and the role of warfare and sacrifice in early Teotihuacan statecraft.