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DOCUMENT Citation Only Hector Cardona Machado. Héctor Cardona. Verenice Heredia. John Millhauser.

La región de Tequila es reconocida por la elaboración de una famosa bebida alcohólica, sello de la mexicanidad actual. Pero a partir de investigaciones arqueológicas realizadas en la zona desde hace más de un siglo, se ha reconocido la abundancia de fuentes y tipos de obsidiana que fueron utilizadas en época prehispánica para la fabricación de bienes tanto de lujo como para uso cotidiano. Esta actividad ha sido un componente importante de las narrativas académicas que procuran definir dinámicas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Velásquez García. Sandra Balanzario Granados. Alexandre Tokovinine.

This is an abstract from the "The Rise and Apogee of the Classic Maya Kaanu’l Hegemonic State at Dzibanche" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En abril de 2009 los arqueólogos Enrique Nalda Henández, Sandra Balanzario Granados y Karina González Hernández excavaron una ofrenda (cache) en el interior de una subestructura del Edificio 5 de Ichkabal, megalópolis maya del Preclásico ubicada en el sur de Quintana Roo. Dicha ofrenda contenía fragmentos de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Cabrero.

Uno de los factores más importantes para la colonización del cañón de Bolaños fue la necesidad de establecer contacto de tipo comercial con el área de Chalchihuites donde se explotaba la codiciada piedra verde o malaquita. Lograron su objetivo a través del establecimiento y control de una ruta comercial que atravesaba la región de Bolaños; la adquisición y redistribución de la malaquita primero; y la turquesa después, por todo el occidente de México fue el eje rector de su economía. La turquesa...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mari Carmen Serra Puche.

En las exploraciones arqueológicas realizadas en las terrazas de Xochitecatl-Cacaxtla se han localizado varias unidades habitacionales donde se producían diferentes bienes de consumo y de prestigio, entre las que destacan: la cerámica, la obsidiana, las cuentas de jade, la lítica pulida y el mezcal, entre otros. Se han localizado áreas de actividad y talleres con las evidencias arqueológicas de manufactura e incluso de almacenamiento. Analizaremos la producción de estos bienes, su distribución...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thania Ibarra. Soledad Ortiz-Ruiz. Oscar de Lucio. Angel Góngora-Salas. Lilian García-Alonso.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En este estudio se caracterizaron pisos de cal arqueológicos de ocho sitios de la región de Ichkaantijoo, Yucatán, de distintas temporalidades (1000 a.C. - 1300 d.C.) por medio de técnicas de ciencias de materiales, a fin de identificar los procesos de la producción artesanal prehispánica y reconocer las diferencias y similitudes en tiempo y espacio. El...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan Alberto Román Berrelleza.

El desollamiento humano es una de las características más notorias asociadas a Xipe Tótec, una de las deidades más enigmáticas del panteón mexica. Durante largo tiempo los investigadores han aceptado sin reservas lo que las fuentes señalan con respecto a esta práctica ritual. Sin embargo, en fechas recientes han surgido varias preguntas en relación a esta práctica. Por ejemplo, ¿Es posible establecer un lugar de origen, temporalidad y evolución de esta práctica en Mesoamérica?, ¿Cómo se...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Barba.

This is an abstract from the "La Práctica Arqueológica en México en Tiempos de Crisis: Escenarios, Problemáticas Claves, Actores, Acciones y Propuestas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El patrimonio cultural es un concepto amplio y complejo que demanda de una aproximación interdisciplinaria para tratar de abarcar aunque sea una parte de su complejidad. Para esto, la creación de redes nacionales e internacionales han permitido una aproximación que...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nelly Robles Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "La Restauración de Monumentos Prehispánicos en México: Principios, Práctica, y Visión al Futuro" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Esta ponencia parte de las experiencias de tratamientos de restauración aplicados a los daños producidos por los sismos de 1999 y 2017 a la zona arqueológica de Monte Albán, Oaxaca, México. Apoyados en la larga experiencia en trabajos de restauración monumental llevados a cabo en México desde...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Holley-Kline.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Oral History, Coloniality, and Community Collaboration in Latin America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The manual labor involved in the production of archaeological knowledges tends to go unacknowledged, and archaeologists have historically had epistemological authority over the interpretation of the past. In Latin America, acknowledging Indigenous labor in archaeology often focuses on restoring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrycja Przadka-Giersz.

In recent decades, Andean archaeology has shown an increasing interest in studying women and the roles they played in ancient society. The spectacular discovery of the imperial mausoleum at Castillo de Huarmey represents the first undisturbed burial context of fifty-eight noblewomen accompanied with six human sacrifices, two tomb guardians and hundreds of precious artifacts, and provides groundbreaking data on female status in Wari Empire. The amount and the richness of the luxury and prestige...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ema Perea. Karla Patroni. Luis Castillo. Luis Muro.

Huaca La Capilla is one of the best preserved architectural mounds in the archaeological site of San Jose de Moro . Its construction corresponds to the Late Moche period, but extends its occupation after its closure . Excavations in the units 55 and 64, located on the northern slope of the mound gives us an approximation to the function that had the structure after the Moche period.This poster presents the results of 2 field campaigns conducted in 2015 and 2016 where 40 burials of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Byron Smith.

Agrarian production in the Central Maya Lowlands during the Classic period was comprised of a variety of techniques that were used to satisfy dietary needs and to stimulate its subsistence economy. Rainfall totals and intensity along the variable topography of the region may have predisposed areas with less vegetative structure to soil erosion. Previous research suggests the application of terraced features by the Maya as a means to lessening the effects of surface runoff while also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Murtha. Whittaker Schroder.

This is an abstract from the "The Urban Question: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Relying on the lens of ecological urbanism this paper describes the diversity of long-term patterns of urbanization and agricultural intensification on regional landscapes in the Maya lowlands of southern Mexico and Central America. Best described as a mosaic, the Maya lowlands offers an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Peck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pre-1778 land use in Hawai‘i Island’s leeward Kohala uplands has been extensively documented by archaeologists, particularly those studying the ancient mauka (upland) Leeward Kohala Field System. However, “historic” (post-1778) land use – particularly in the uplands – is not as well understood. In this poster, I provide a review of the documentary and oral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond Hunter. Steve Kosiba.

Access to land is an important marker of status in agrarian societies. During the Andean Late Horizon (c.1400-1532), land differences grounded status distinctions: nobles developed monumental estate farms and kin-oriented communities collectively administered patchwork fields. Under the Spanish colonial system (1532-1824) access to land and labour came to differentiate status in new ways. Spaniards appropriated labor and property, while indigenous nobility contested Spanish rule and staked new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Roscoe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Not infrequently, New Guinean warriors managed in war to displace or annihilate the members of a neighboring territory, yet almost never did they then move in and occupy the territory they had won. Instead, they either left it vacant, allowed allies to take it over, or (most commonly) invited the original owners back a couple of years later. This seemingly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomás Gallareta Negrón. Leslie Cecil. George Bey III.

This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2015, an archaeological rescue program was carried out in Mani, Yucatán, related to improvements in the main square with the aim of designating Mani as a “magical town.” The excavations produced 568 fragments of the “idols” destroyed during the so-called auto de fe organized by Diego de Landa in Mani (1562), punishing the Maya population for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arthur Joyce. Sarah Barber. Guy Hepp. Paul Sandberg. Michelle Butler.

This paper presents the results of an isotopic study of human dietary change during the Formative period (2000 BCE-300 CE) in the lower Río Verde Valley of Oaxaca. Approximately 60 individuals were sampled for δ13C and δ15N using both teeth and long bones. The study examines trends in the consumption of maize and marine/estuarine resources relative to regional environmental change. Interdisciplinary research along the drainage system indicates that environmental change in the lower Verde was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomas Gallareta Negron. Rossana May Ciau.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper combines the results of settlement and vegetation surveys in the Puuc Region of Yucatan, Mexico, with an emphasis in the Bolonchen District and the archaeological Maya site of Kiuic. The extensive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Chyla.

This is an abstract from the "A Decade of Multidisciplinary Research at Castillo de Huarmey, Peru" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Castillo de Huarmey, a Wari provincial center and elite necropolis, was one of the most important locations on the Middle Horizon (AD 650–1050) Huarmey Valley landscape. In my presentation, I will address issues concerning the location of the site on a macro scale in the entire Huarmey Valley, on a micro scale (the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eduardo Neves.

There is good archaeological evidence that the Amazon basin was densely populated during the 2,000 years prior to the beginning of European colonization and that these populations promoted important landscape transformations. However, not much is known about patterns of landscape transformation during the Middle Holocene. This paper brings such data based on ongoing research on two archaeological sites in Southwestern Amazonia: Monte Castelo, a fluvial shellmound and Teotonio, an open air deeply...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loni Kantor.

This is an abstract from the "Journeying to the South, from Mimbres (New Mexico) to Malpaso (Zacatecas) and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Ben A. Nelson" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landscapes are more than just where people subsist: landscapes are inherently social entities. People create landscapes in their interactions with the environment and with each other; they conceptualize landscapes in various ways; they mediate their relationships with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Antonelli.

This paper examines shifting environmental paradigms in the Maya realm. Using Mayapán as a case study, a site long-considered to be located in a "marginal" environment for agricultural productivity, I will evaluate site resilience, sustainability, and self-sufficiency and use these concepts to create a more nuanced perspective of human-environment interactions. Data from Mayapán will be cross-referenced to other similar sites across the Maya region. I will show that assumptions about the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Alvarado. Takeshi Inomata.

This is an abstract from the "Aguada Fénix and the Middle Usumacinta Region: Interregional Interactions and Social Transformations in the Middle Preclassic Period" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The latest archaeological evidence has shown that 10,000 years ago the landscapes of the actual Mexican territory suffered constant changes due to human activities. Fire, horticulture, species dissemination, and agriculture are among the factors that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ross Ensley. Richard Hansen. Carlos Morales. Josie Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Multidisciplinary Investigations in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southern Petén Plateau can be subdivided into four karst landscapes, each with a dominant karst landform. They are fluviokarst, polygonal karst, karst margin plain, and upland karst. These terrains have different proportions of uplands and low standing wetlands. Within this framework lies the Mirador-Calakmul...