Huei Tzompantli

Huei Tzompantli, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History's own project record for the Templo Mayor skull rack excavation, published through its Urban Archaeology Program, is a primary institutional field record from the government body directly responsible for the excavation. Its strength is firsthand institutional authority over an active dig, checkable at a live government url. Its limit is that a field project record documents the excavation's own findings as they stood when written, not a settled final scholarly interpretation of the tzompantli's full ritual meaning, which continuing publication from the same excavation should be checked for.