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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=3>Dear colleagues,<BR>this one is an old
topic.<BR>as far as I know the first to make the count was Sherburne Cook in
1946 (he<BR>gives the same time: two minutes each per sacrifice- all the
references are<BR>in Hugh Thomas).<BR>Counting time and counting skulls (Ortiz,
1983) can be interesting, but<BR>requires good sense, the ceremonial center of
Tenochtitlan was not an<BR>industrial butchery.<BR>Have you an idea of what
requires and means to deal with so many bodies ?<BR>The figures of some codices
are impossible.<BR>According to mexica rituals and some chronicles, I think it
can be likely<BR>the number of 5000 for whole Tenochtitlan each year.<BR>Antonio
Aimi.</FONT><BR><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>