Veracruz (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Wann. Lacy Risner. Marcie Venter.

This is an abstract from the "Olmec Manifestations and Ongoing Societal Transformations in the Tuxtlas Uplands: A View from Matacanela" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study compares Middle Formative through Early Classic period ceramic attributes, including temper size, type, and abundance, from stratified deposits at Matacanela Site in Veracruz, Mexico to other contemporaneous sites located in the Tuxtla Mountains and riverine bottomlands in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ladron De Guevara.

The deities of El Tajin seem to share a characteristic scroll eyebrow in bas reliefs as well as in mural paintings. I will follow the representation of such an icon, trying to recognize posible origins, the outreach of the element and the symbolic associations in Mesoamerican time and space.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Pohl. J. M. Adovasio. Christopher von Nagy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite over a century of intense research, little has been published on the non-durable technology of the Olmecs. This is due to the "tyranny" of preservation, which strongly biases the archaeological record in most areas toward durable artifacts. Recent analysis of a probably accidentally impressed potsherd from San Andrés, within the urban polity of La...

DATASET Barbara Stark.

This excel file contains information about the archaeological features recorded in survey from 1986 to 2002. The variables are described in a separate document: mcolvars.doc. A collection number is based on the feature number. Any additional collection from a feature was given a separate number, normally in the 900s.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Stark.

This document file describes the variables in the mndallto02.xls file.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Guernsey. Andrew D. Turner. Michael Love.

Pedestal sculptures featuring supernatural felines with cacao drupes projecting from their foreheads dotted the Late Formative landscape of the Pacific slope and adjacent Guatemalan Highlands. In this paper we consider the implications of the replication of this sculptural form, its role in articulating an elite agenda linked to the production of cacao, and its pertinence to sites of varying scale and relative regional authority. A similar suite of meanings engaged with cacao and supernatural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuko Shiratori. Ángel González López.

This is an abstract from the "Sculpture of the Ancient Mexican Gulf Coast, Part 2" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large-scale female terracotta sculptures were extensively produced in the Mixtequilla region of Veracruz during the Late Classic period. It is likely that numbers of these sculptures were looted and smuggled into the United States prior to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property. This paper focuses the female terracotta...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Arnold.

Great is the conflation of Ehecatl Quetzalcoatl and Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: a mythical player in the world creation of Mesoamerican groups vs. a semi-historical personage who presaged the arrival of Hernán Cortés. Veracruz, a region implicated via the activities of both avatars, is particularly enmeshed in this duality. The Postclassic narrative whereby Quetzalcoatl journeyed to the Gulf lowlands appears to be foreshadowed in the desacralization of Teotihuacan’s Feathered Serpent Pyramid at the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Stark.

These scans are of the original field and laboratory records from excavations in 1968-1969 on Patarata Island, Veracruz, Mexico, reported in a monograph published by Vanderbilt University.

IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 1001-1200. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 1201-1500. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 1501-2000. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 2500-3000. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 3001-3700. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These figurine images have accession numbers 3701-3800 in the image archhive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These figurine images have accession numbers 3801-3900 in the image archive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 501-1000. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

DATASET Barbara Stark.

This file contains tallies of figurines according to feature number or Isolated Find (IF) number. The figurine classification is described in the figurine codebook. Note that if the figurine was an IF, the collection/feature number is entered as missing data (all 9s).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Renee M. Bonzani.

This report describes the carbonized heavy fraction wood remains recovered from fifty-five samples from seven units (Units TA1, 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4A and 4B)(Table 1) and the carbonized wood remains recovered from the light fractions of flotation from fifty samples from six units (Units TA1, 1B, 1C, 2, 3, and 4B)(Table 2) collected during the excavations of the Matacanela Site in Veracruz, Mexico. One thousand four hundred and nine carbonized wood fragments (<7.9 grams) were heavy fractions from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annick J. E. Daneels.

This is an abstract from the "Sculpture of the Ancient Mexican Gulf Coast, Part 2" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The god Xipe Totec has been mostly analyzed from Postclassic evidence (Toltec and Aztec). He is recognized by the representations of a person wearing the skin of a flayed victim or the victim himself. While both types of figures appear in several regions of Mesoamerica, their contexts vary. In this paper I will review Classic and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oswaldo Chinchilla.

This is an abstract from the "The Flower World: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the richest repertoires of Mesoamerican flower imagery comes from the Pacific coast of Guatemala. In this paper, I trace the temporal variations in religious beliefs and imagery related to portentous places of beauty known that modern scholars designated as "flower worlds." Lush...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Sandstrom.

This is an abstract from the "The Flower World: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Flowers are a central feature of religious rituals among today's Nahua of the southern Huasteca. They are associated with the sun, growing corn, life-giving water, the bounty of the living cosmos, and ancestors who visit their relatives during Day of the Dead. For the Nahua, flowers are far...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Davis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Salinas La Blanca, located within the coastal estuary of the Soconusco region of Guatemala, was occupied from the Early to Middle Formative periods. This was a period of considerable cultural change, as Olmec influence on the Pacific Coast waned and regional centers developed more centralized power. This paper presents the results of a chemical compositional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Pool.

Recently Stoner and Pool called for an "Archaeology of Disjuncture" to refocus attention on variation in intra- and interregional interaction, illustrating the approach with the case of the Classic period of the Tuxtla Mountains in southern Veracruz. In this paper I extend application of the disjunctive approach into the Formative Period of the southern Gulf lowlands, focusing primarily on interactions with Central Mexico, and incorporating a Communities of Practice perspective on the formation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Hedgepeth Balkin. Arthur Joyce. Raymond Mueller. Sarah Barber.

This is an abstract from the "Regional and Intensive Site Survey: Case Studies from Mesoamerica" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Regional survey in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico has been ongoing since 1994. Our full-coverage approach resulted in extensive spatial coverage (224 km2) spanning the valley’s major physiographic zones (e.g., floodplain, piedmont, etc.). The coarse-grained data produced via this methodology is ideal for...