CNN report on Aztecs

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:31:45PM -0400, John F. Schwaller wrote:
> 
> I was just pointed to this story:
> 
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/23/aztecs.cannibals.reut/index.html
> 
> 
> The site is called Tecuaque.  Could this be a Nahuatl verb "some one 
> was eaten?"

On this site:

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/24/aztec_sacrifices/>
 
it is said that the name means "where people are eaten" (presumably a loose
translation) and was given by Hernán Cortés after the Spanish found out
about the massacre.


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