re: “”It provides rather novel information on the use and reuse of skulls for ritual events at the Templo Mayor,” Gillespie said in an email. Also, the common belief about Aztec sacrificial stones is that a person being sacrificed was killed by cutting open the chest and pulling out the heart - “We normally associate (it) with heart removal rather than decapitation,” she said. “It ultimately gives us a better understanding of how the Aztecs used the human body in various ways in their ritual practices.”
Maybe it’s just me, but this particular archeologist’s way of describing these horrific practices is rather cold and antisceptic to me. She’s talking about this as though it was just some fascinating medical procedure.
That kind of detachment is essential to preserve one's sanity. Medical examiners act much the same way.