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May 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The archaeologists who found the knives gave them to researcher Luisa Mainou
at the anthropology institute’s restoration laboratories about two years
ago. With help from specialists at Mexico’s National Autonomous University,
they were studied under the scanning electronic microscope and found to
contain red blood cells, collagen, tendon and muscle fibre fragments.
While historical accounts from Aztec times, as well as drawings and paintings
from earlier cultures, had long suggested that priests used knives and other
instruments for non-life-threatening bloodletting rituals, the presence of
the muscle and tendon traces indicates the cuts were deep and intended to
sever portions of the victim’s body.
“These finds confirm that the knives were used for sacrifices,”
Mainou said.
(AP)
Susan Gillespie, associate professor of anthropology at the University of
Florida who was not involved in the research project, said it was the first
time to her knowledge that such tissue remains had been identified on
obsidian knives.
“This is a compelling demonstration that these knives were used to cut
human flesh,” Gillespie said in an email.
She said other studies have found trace elements of organic remains such as
food on ancient artefacts, so “with the right conditions such remains
can preserve for long periods.”
Gillespie said human sacrifice practices either described by the Spanish
conquerors or depicted in pre-Conquest paintings include heart removal,
decapitation, dismemberment, disembowelling and skinning of victims.
Interestingly, the find announced Wednesday has already begun to shed some new
light on the murky sacrifice practices of pre-Hispanic cultures, which
believed that human blood was a sort of vital liquid needed to keep the
cosmos in balance.
For example, some knives in the test had more traces of red blood cells, while
others had more skin, and others more muscle or collagen, “which
suggest that each cutting tool was used for a different purpose, according
to its form,” Mainou said.
Gillespie said the find also suggested the intriguing possibility that the
sacrificial knives were ritually deposited, unwashed, in some special site
after being used.
The Spanish conquerors have long been suspected of perhaps exaggerating
accounts of mass human sacrifice in pre-Hispanic cultures, to make their
Indian subjects appear more brutal and less deserving of sympathy.
“The archaeological confirmation of human sacrifice is important both
for supporting or contesting the many post-conquest historical accounts and
pre-conquest imagery of sacrifice,” Gillespie wrote.
Source: agencies
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