Michoacan (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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A Zooarchaeological Reconstruction of the Grand Feast of Plaza of the Columns, Teotihuacan (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nawa Sugiyama. Yen-Shin T. Hsu. Edsel Rafael Robles Martínez.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Offering D1 represents the residue of an extravagant feast, involving a plethora of artifacts, over 25,000 ceramic fragments, and more than 50,000 animal bones ceremoniously “killed” and discarded in a pit excavated in an old plaza floor. We present the zooarchaeological report of this assemblage, focusing on...


Zooarchaeology and Bioarchaeology: Ceremonial Feasts and Human Caches at Plaza of the Columns Complex, Teotihuacan (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Hsu. Nawa Sugiyama. Leila Martinez-Bentley. Mónica Gómez Peña.

Preliminary analyses of the zooarchaeological assemblage from the Plaza of the Columns Complex illustrate a snapshot into past human activities such as specialized ceremonial events and faunal acquisition strategies for food consumption. The fauna from this complex, located just northwest of the Sun Pyramid, add to the database of forty years of archaeofaunal exploration throughout Teotihuacan. Here, we focus upon animal species distributed among four areas to understand the economic and ritual...