Guanajuato (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ernesto Morales.

This is an abstract from the "Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Subterranean" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As early as 1910, Manuel Gamio called attention to what he termed cavernas in the Chalchihuites area of Zacatecas. Later, in the 1960s, Charles Kelly and Philip Weigand labelled these features mines and proposed that they supplied Teotihuacan with turquoise. It has since been shown that the area is not a turquoise producing area....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Kowalewski.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Property Regimes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For key agricultural resources, people form and refine social institutions of property tailored to biophysical constraints and affordances of the local environment. As known from indigenous texts and practices, and a large body of historical research, in Oaxaca—and by extension Mesoamerica and beyond—intensive terracing, irrigation, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Sherfield. Alicia Fritz. Ruth Brenton. Thomas Lobato. Michael Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chemical and osteological research comparing burials from different apartment compounds has found that people interred within Mazapa, Xolalpan, and La Ventilla apartment compounds have similar genetic history while people buried in Tlailotlacan held distinctly different genetic history. In this poster, we expand on this research through an analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mijaely Castañón-Suárez.

This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Long-distance interactions and exchange of goods should leave marks in the material record. Because of the movement of objects or goods, such exchange will be reflected in the presence of foreign objects or technologies. Interactions are themselves a communication process in which ideas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Healan.

This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 1" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nearly fifty years ago Paul Tolstoy and David Grove argued that a major component of the so-called Tlatilco complex was West Mexican in origin, raising awareness of substantial interaction between the Basin of Mexico and an area then considered largely peripheral to Mesoamerica....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Berenice Jiménez González. Guillermo Acosta Ochoa.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions during the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic (AD 650–1100) in the Central Highlands: New Insights from Material and Visual Culture" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los recursos pétreos son una materia prima imprescindible para la obtención de instrumentos, manufactura de joyería y objetos de consumo ceremonial. En este trabajo se emplean diversas metodologías de estudio que incluyen el análisis tipológico,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carballo. Daniela Hernández Sariñana. Agustín Ortiz. Jorge Blancas.

This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the project’s beginnings in 2012, Luis Barba has been a codirector of the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT), helping to bring an interdisciplinary research program to studying neighborhood organization and domestic life on the southern periphery of this early Mexican metropolis. After first investigating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Wesp. John K. Millhauser.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and Material Culture of the Spanish Invasion of Mesoamerica and Forging of New Spain" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper brings together archaeological, bioarchaeological, and ethnohistoric data to highlight how daily life was transformed in New Spain. In particular, we focus on labor as an avenue for understanding the complex relationships and negotiations between working individuals and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean Blumenfeld. Rudolf Cesaretti. Angela Huster. Michael E. Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The architectural map produced by René Millon’s Teotihuacan Mapping Project allows a fine-grained investigation of two features poorly understood for ancient cities. First, we use a kernel density analysis of residential structures to assess the differential population densities of the city. We find that there...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Manzanilla.

This is an abstract from the "What Happened after the Fall of Teotihuacan?" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The fall of the metropolis of Teotihuacan with the 570 CE great fire in the core of the settlement shook Mesoamerica. Demographic displacements, balkanization into small polities, military competition between sites, were all events of the so-called Epiclassic. This symposium will review data from my interdisciplinary project “The Study of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Somerville. Isabel Casar. Daniel Dalmas. Pedro Morales.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The dry caves and floodplain archaeological sites of the Tehuacan Valley in Puebla, Mexico, excavated by Richard S. MacNeish and his team in the 1960s, contained some of the earliest macrobotanical evidence for domesticated New World plants, including maize, avocados and chili peppers. While many studies have focused on the levels associated with these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Urquhart.

New archaeological research at the site of Angamuco, Michoacán, Mexico demonstrates unequivocally that the P'urépecha (Tarascans) had cities that before the formation of the Late Postclassic empire. This paper will reexamine the ethnohistoric and ethnographic evidence for the organizational structure of P'urépecha urban polities in light of the new archaeological evidence. The evidence presented here suggests a form of political organization superficially similar to the altepetl model of Nahua...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Freiwald. Sarah Clayton. Kaedan O’Brien.

This is an abstract from the "Central Mexico after Teotihuacan: Everyday Life and the (Re)Making of Epiclassic Communities" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chicoloapan grew and prospered after the decline of Teotihuacan, but little is known about the Epiclassic population that lived there and elsewhere in the Basin of Mexico. An isotopic and osteological analysis of six individuals recovered from salvage and archaeological contexts provides a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maarten Jansen. Gabina Perez.

This is an abstract from the "Misinformation and Misrepresentation Part 2: Reconsidering “Human Sacrifice,” Religion, Slavery, Modernity, and Other European-Derived Concepts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human sacrifice and cannibalism are hallmarks of colonial discourse, which was developed to justify the conquest of the Americas. Particularly Aztec worldview has been presented consistently as pivoting on human sacrifices to “bloodthirsty...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eliseo Padilla. Karent López Guzmán.

This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A finales de la década de 1910 llegaban al Museo Nacional de México los primeros objetos de la cultura Chupícuaro como parte de la colección Guillermo Heredia. Posteriormente en 1926 se integraban aquellos que procedían de las excavaciones de Ramón Mena y Porfirio Aguirre, y durante los...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hernán Salas.

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. Los pueblos del sur de Tlaxcala, han construido su territorio desde las épocas prehispánicas, como lo atestiguan los sitios arqueológicos que aquí se ubican. Esta presentación considera, desde la antropología...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Uruñuela. Patricia Plunket. Héctor Aguilar.

A Mexican slang expression, "la del estribo" (one for the stirrup) refers to the extra glass before departing, the one that you take to continue your path. In many cultures, social drinking reinforces the collective fabric: to seal an accord, to pledge peace, or to celebrate the start or the end of an event. As death is the most crucial instance that both signals closure and new beginnings, today, as in the past, funerals often include libations. In the village of Tetimpa, some beverage was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosa Flores Ramírez. Andrés Saúl Alcántara Salinas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los trabajos de rescate arqueológico son constantes en la arqueología de México, el caso que se presenta a continuación es la investigación realizada en 2022 en la Catedral de Colima, donde a partir de un trabajo de supervisión, sobre un problema de drenaje realizado por personal de Monumentos Históricos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia en...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gilberto Pérez-Roldán.

This is an abstract from the "The Palace of Xalla in Teotihuacan: A Possible Seat of Power in the Ancient Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Teopancazco se ha considerado un barrio de clase media donde los trabajadores artesanales se dedicaron a confeccionar artículos de vestimenta para la élite que habitó ese barrio. Mientras que Xalla es un sitio que se considera un palacio administrativo y cívico-religioso. Además, existieron artesanos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mari Carmen Serra Puche.

El surgimiento del Centro Regional de Xochitecatl-Cacaxtla tiene sus orígenes en los primeros asentamientos aldeanos del Valle de Tlaxcala, la elección del lugar donde se construyó se debe a la ubicación estratégica entre los ejes de los volcanes que rematan el valle reconstruyendo un paisaje sagrado y también por el acceso y control de las rutas de intercambio con la cuenca de México, el Valle de Morelos y el Golfo y Oaxaca. Su área de interacción y control fue cambiando en el Transcurso del...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos López-Puértolas. Linda R. Manzanilla-Naim. Maria Luisa Vázquez-de Ágredos-Pascual.

This is an abstract from the "The Palace of Xalla in Teotihuacan: A Possible Seat of Power in the Ancient Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El color es uno de los elementos característicos de Teotihuacan, tal y como refleja la rica policromía expresada en soportes como la arquitectura y su pintura mural o la cerámica estucada y pintada. Sin embargo, poco se conoce sobre cómo se elaboraba color en la ciudad Clásica del Centro de México...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean Blumenfeld. Eunice Villasenor Iribe. Christopher Morehart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many have argued that the hacienda of colonial Mexico represents the emergence of commercial enterprise through privately owned landed estates. However, these estates were not strictly economic units, but comprised a diverse social and political institution engaged in a complex interplay with the broader cultural landscape, transforming local environments...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily McClung De Tapia. Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa. Diana Martínez-Yrízar. Carmen Cristina Adriano-Morán. Jorge Ezra Cruz-Palma.

This is an abstract from the "Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent studies of both macrobotanical and microbotanical remains associated with early populations in the Basin of Mexico provide broader evidence for plant use and contribute to understanding of the range of subsistence components available to these communities. From a methodological perspective, the complementary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirk French. Elijah Hermitt. Neal Hutcheson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1961, archaeologist William T. Sanders traveled to México’s Teotihuacan Valley to film a documentary based on his 1957 Harvard dissertation. The film, Land and Water: An Ecological Study of the Teotihuacan Valley of México, provides an invaluable snapshot of agricultural and land-use practices in the area just prior to the urban explosion of México City....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eunice Villasenor Iribe. Christopher Morehart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studying agricultural productivity and intensification elucidates the behavioral and demographic patterns of past societies. By understanding how physical environments were modified for agricultural use, it is possible to determine key economic and social processes. This paper presents the results of the analysis of terraces associated with the Epiclassic...