Aztec (Culture Keyword)
Aztecs
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This is a representation of a Peyote vision experienced by Silver Horn showing the Morning Star. Courtesy of Tim Pauketat.
PHYTOLITH, ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR), AND ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION (XRF) ANALYSIS ON CERAMIC SAMPLES FROM SITE XALTOCAN OP Z3, NEXTALPAN, MEXICO (2018)
Xaltocan OP Z3, situated on a gentle slope in the former Xaltocan-Zumpanog lake bed, is located in the Nextalpan Municipality, Mexico. The artificially constructed island that comprises this site lies in the middle of Lake Xaltocan and dates to the tenth century AD (Kristin De Lucia, personal communication August 8, 2018). Phytolith, organic residue (FTIR), and elemental composition (XRF) analysis were conducted on twelve ceramics representing bowls, a basin, several comals, and numerous...
Plaza Size Dataset: Metadata. Supplemental Material for Ossa et al. (2017)
Metadata to accompany the excel file containing information on plaza area and population for Mesoamerican cities
Plaza sizes for Mesoamerican cities (2017)
Plaza area and population for Postclassic Mesoamerican cities analyzed in: Ossa, Alanna, Michael E. Smith, and José Lobo (2017). The Size of Plazas in Mesoamerican Cities: A Quantitative Analysis and Social Interpretation. Latin American Antiquity 28(4): 457-475.
The Politics of Commerce: Aztec Pottery Production and Exchange in the Basin of Mexico, A.D. 1200-1650 (2006)
The relationships between market and political institutions have varied in different times and places, but no market system was (or is) devoid of political involvement. The contrasting approaches of the Aztec empire and Spanish colonial regime to the Basin of Mexico market system are instructive about the ways that commercial agents (producers, traders) respond to “top-down” pressures from state elites to steer and direct the commercial economy to their political advantage. The results of this...
Port of Trade Enclaves in Aztec and May Civilization. In: Trade and Market In the Early Empires (1957)
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Proto Quetzalcoatl (2010)
This is a proto image of Quetzalcoatl, Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Dates to AD 400. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.
Proto Tlaloc (2010)
Proto image of Tlaloc, Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Dates to AD 400. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.
Reconocimiento superficial del Valle de Yautepec, Morelos: informe final (2006)
This is a technical report from an archaeological survey in the Yautepec Valley, in the Mexican state of Morelos. The report was submitted to the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. There are 14 files in pdf format.
The Role of Venus in the Cosmologies of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Southeast (2010)
This paper describes differing but related views of the meanings of Venus in Central Mexico, West Mexico, the U.S. Southwest, and the Eastern Woodlands.
Settlement data from the 1960-1975 Basin of Mexico Surveys (2014)
Data analyzed in Ortman, S. G., A. H. F. Cabaniss, J. Sturm, and L. M. A. Bettencourt, The Pre-History of Urban Scaling, PLOS ONE (Feb. 2014).
Settlement Scaling and Increasing Returns in an Ancient Society (2015)
Main text and SI of published paper in PDF format. The SI includes a series of datasets derived from the Basin of Mexico surveys that are analyzed in the main text.
Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions (2010)
In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.
Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy (2007)
Compiled in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, Skywatching in the Ancient World offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions. This collection's wide range of outstanding scholarship reveals that cultural astronomy has come into its own. The diverse topics addressed by the contributors include the correlation between Colonial Northern...
Social Reactors Project datasets
Datasets from various publications of the Social Reactors Project
Solar Observatory at Muddy River and Rochester Creek (1985)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: a View Form Huexotla (1980)
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The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007)
In this paper, George Cowgill focuses on how Mesoamericans used worldviews and ideologies in sociopolitical ways. More specifically, Cowgill argues that specific sociopolitical ideologies arise when there is a shared worldview.
Technical report (2014)
Technical report of 2013 field season
Technical report (2015)
Technical report of 2014 field season
Technical report (2016)
Technical report of 2015-2016 laboratory analyses
Technical report (2020)
Technical report of 2019 season of Proyecto Arqueologico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT) in Spanish
Teotihuacan Valley Project
The Teotihuacan Valley Project was designed to map pre-Hispanic and Colonial period occupations of the Teotihuacan Valley, the northeastern arm of the Basin of Mexico. Initiated in the 1960s by William T. Sanders, the project eventually produced five volumes of reports and many ancillary works, covering the ecology of the valley and the settlement patterns of its successive time periods.
Three collections of spindle whorls from Calixtlahuaca, Mexico (2013)
This dataset consists of a single spreadsheet of standard metric and non-metric data for three collections of spindle whorls from the Postclassic site of Calixtlahuaca, Toluca Valley (State of Mexico), Mexico. The collections are from the 2007 Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project excavations, the Museo de Antropología y Historia in Toluca Mexico, and the Yale Peabody. This dataset accompanies the following article: Huster, Angela C. 2013 Assessing Systematic Bias in Museum Collections: A...
Tlajinga, Teotihuacan, Mexico
Investigations of the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT) focus on the Tlajinga district, a cluster of neighborhoods in the southern part of Teotihuacan, Mexico. The area was inhabited by a lower socioeconomic stratum, was the locus of intensive utilitarian craft production, and is bisected by the city’s central artery—named the Street of the Dead by the later Aztecs, who viewed Teotihuacan as a mythical place of origins and an archetypal city. Research goals of the PATT scale from...