Fresh archeological discoveries have revealed an especially bloody story from the Spanish colonization of Mexico.
Among the ruins of Tecoaque, an Aztec-allied town, archeologists discovered the remains of women and children who appear to have been slaughtered and mutilated by Spanish colonialists. However, they suspect that this wasn’t just a random act of violence but a gesture of revenge in response to a catastrophe that occurred several months earlier.
In 1520, the town of Tecoaque sacrificed and cannibalized around 450 people, including Spanish men, women, and children, and dozens of foot soldiers from a mix of indigenous cultures. Their flesh was eaten and many of their bones were carved into trophies. When Hernán Cortés, one of the leading Spanish Conquistadors, heard about this slaughter, he ordered Gonzalo de Sandoval to seek a violent reprisal in early 1521.
Excavation of Aztec Town Reveals Evidence of Violent Encounters
TECOAQUE, MEXICO
The Guardian reports that a team of researchers led by archaeologists Enrique Martínez Vargas and Ana María Jarquín Pacheco of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have found evidence of the 1521 Spanish attack on the town of Tecoaque, which is also known as Zultepec. In 1520, the residents of Tecoaque captured a convoy made up of Spanish men, women, and children and hundreds of their New World allies, held them prisoner, and sacrificed them over a period of about six months. In the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs, the name Tecoaque translates to “the place where they ate them.” Vargas said the team members found the bones of Spaniards that had been carved into trophies, in addition to decapitated, dismembered, and burned Spanish remains bearing butchery marks. Traces of defensive works suggest the people of Tecoaque expected the Spanish to retaliate. And indeed, Hern
The convoy was heading south from Cuba, where conquistador Hernan Cortes first made land in 1519.
All of the captured were subsequently sacrificed or even eaten over the ensuing months, according to INAH.
When Cortes caught wind of the sacrifices, he ordered troops to go in and destroy the village as an act of revenge.
Archaeology news: Conquistadors slaughtered Aztec town of women and children in revenge act (Image: GETTY)
The Aztec town known as Tecoaque, which , translates to the place where they ate them in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs (Image: GETTY)
Most of the inhabitants heard the attack was coming and so fled, but this was not before the bones of the sacrificed Spaniards were thrown in to wells, the archaeologists revealed.
A large female statue wearing a Star Wars-like headdress was found in a citrus field in the town of Hidalgo Amajac which is located in Veracruz, Mexico. The large 6’5” limestone statue dates back about 500 years during the late Postclassic period (between the years 1450 and 1521). At the widest part of the statue, it measured almost 2 feet in width and about 10 inches in thickness. It also has a spike at the bottom of the statue so that it could stand upright.
According to Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the statue shows a young woman who is wearing fancy clothing (long-sleeved shirt and a long skirt but bare feet) as well as very elaborate jewelry that included tassel-like earrings, a circular pendant called a “oyohualli” that was on a thick chain, and a headdress that looked very similar to the one that Ahsoka Tano wore in Star Wars.
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