Mesoamerica (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Arroyo.

Various cultural parallels have been mentioned in the past about the connections between two important regions in the Americas: South America and Mesoamerica. The nature of how this contact took place was a research question that has interested many but is still unanswered. This paper will address the question using information from archaeological fieldwork carried out at sites on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. Additional information will come from the “invisible” records including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Beekman.

The site of Los Guachimontones-Loma Alta is the largest political center of the Late Formative/Early Classic periods in central Jalisco, with an occupation extending from the late Middle Formative through to the end of the Postclassic period. This spans more than 1500 years and includes three major material culture complexes already defined in other locations - Tequila II, III, and IV, El Grillo, and Atemajac I and II. The primary ceremonial architecture of the site pertains to the Tequila...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Konwest. Stacie M. King.

Among burials below the floor of an elite adobe residence, the Proyecto Arqueológico Nejapa/Tavela uncovered 448 fragments and complete glass and jet beads at the early Colonial period town of Majaltepec, located in the mountains of the Nejapa region, Oaxaca, Mexico. This poster will discuss the likely biography of the beads, from manufacture in Europe to the current display in the local museum. Some of the glass beads match types known to have been manufactured in Spain, France, and Venice....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael D. Coe. Kent V. Flannery.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Victor Emmanuel Salazar Chavez. Jeffrey Blomster.

Public spaces appeared early in Mesoamerica, often linked to emerging communal identity and/or socio-political complexity. Their construction, and subsequent maintenance and renovations, reflect the collective effort of different social actors and corporate entities. In Mesoamerica, public space first appears during the Early Formative period (1500-900 BCE), a time of emerging socio-political complexity at sites such as San Lorenzo, San Jose Mogote, and Paso de la Amada. The arrangement and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Stuart.

This paper presents evidence for a lowland origin of Maya hieroglyphic writing and iconography during the Late Pre-Classic period. It calls into question long-standing models of highland-lowland interaction that have assigned temporal priority of Maya monumental art and visual culture to the southern highlands and Piedmont region. In addition to the several known sculpted and inscribed monuments from the Peten region, archaeological evidence from the site of San Bartolo has revealed integrated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kent V. Flannery.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Dudley T. Easby, Jr..

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Mountjoy. Fabio Germán Cupul Magaña. Rafael García de Quevedo Machain. Martha Lorenza López Mestas Camberos.

Recent investigations at the site of Arroyo Piedras Azules on the northwestern coast of Jalisco have revealed much about the nature and the date of Early Postclassic Aztatlán colonization of the Pacific coast of Jalisco. Excavations at this 3-4 hectare habitation site by a local enthusiast and follow-up investigations that included stratigraphic excavations by the primary author have indicated a direct colonization of this site by people from coastal Nayarit who arrived during the Cerritos phase...

GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This final map project is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. The files contained in this record include an .mxd map project and an image of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatsuya Murakami. Shigeru Kabata. Julieta M. López J.. José Juan Chávez V.. Hironori Fukuhara.

Tlalancaleca was one of the largest settlements before the rise of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico and likely provided cultural and historical settings for the creation of Central Mexican urban traditions during later periods. Yet its urbanization process as well as socio-spatial organization remain poorly understood. This paper presents preliminary results of mapping, ground survey, surface collection, manual auger probe, and test excavations, which were carried out over the three seasons of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arthur Joyce. Sarah Barber. Jeffrey Brzezinski.

This paper considers the relationship between sacrifice and the people, practices, and objects assembled on later Formative period public buildings in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca. Excavations in public buildings at numerous sites in the region have found evidence for ceremonial practices including the emplacement of earth offerings, the interment of human bodies in cemeteries, and ritual feasting. The objects emplaced in public buildings as offerings included ceramic vessels, greenstone,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keitlyn Alcantara.

Late Postclassic Central Mexico is defined by significant political change, with the Aztec Triple Alliance quickly dominating the political landscape. As the triple alliance materialized in the 15th century, Tlaxcallan simultaneously emerged as a key market center, connecting trade in the central highlands to the Gulf Coast. As the alliance expanded, Tlaxcallan remained a uniquely unconquered space, yet the conditions of its autonomy are unclear. Siege of trade routes and the manipulation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Sullivan. Jaime Awe.

The ancient Maya expressed complex ideological and cosmological systems through diverse material practices. The ritual caching of objects, particularly offerings of chert and obsidian eccentrics, was a common manifestation of this integrated worldview throughout the Maya Lowlands. The study of these caches allows archaeologists to explore elements of ancient Maya ideology, which were shared across broad temporal and spatial landscapes. With over 100 years of previous archaeological research,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. A. Burland.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Ursula M. Cowgill. G. E. Hutchinson.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark N. Cohen.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard E. Blanton.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Kowalewski.

New studies have led to a deeper comprehension of economic variation and change in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica and the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Archaeological data on city-state settlement patterns, specialized production, trade, and household consumption, and new archival material and re-analysis of texts, have replaced primitivism, substantivism, and ideal-types. In urbanization and demographic scale the two areas are comparable. Mesoamerican and Greek agricultural production was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Chase. Arlen Chase.

The economies of the ancient Maya did not exist in vacuums; rather, they were interconnected to each other. This paper details the way in which one of these economies functioned during the Late Classic Period (A.D. 550-900). Archaeological research at Caracol, Belize has been able to reconstruct how ancient Maya production and exchange systems were functioning within a large metropolitan area that serviced over 100,000 people. The population of Caracol maintained agricultural self-sufficiency on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot M. Abrams.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomas Gallareta Negron. Tomas Gallareta. William Ringle. Bey George.

Some theorists of the ancient Maya economy argue that the movement of goods served to materialize and aid in the performance of what were essentially political relations of power. Such a perspective emphasizes the rigidity and extreme hierarchy of exchange networks, and their essential focus on the ruler's body and his court. Proponents of market exchange, in contrast, see exchange as serving more quotidien processes of supply and demand, and only tangentially political forces. The Puuc Hills of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Wagley.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael E. Smith.

In discussions of Aztec society, the economy and inequality are typically treated as separate realms. The former is discussed in terms of production, exchange, and consumption, while the latter is framed around nobles versus commoners and various hierarchies. Although no one would claim that these two topics are unrelated, the full extent of their interconnection is rarely acknowledged. We cannot understand Aztec economic processes and institutions without reference to patterns of inequality,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marieka Brouwer Burg. Rachel Horowitz.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While more women than men are getting PhDs in archaeology today, female lithicists continue to be outnumbered by their male counterparts. This is in part a result of outdated gendered conceptions about who can do certain types of archaeological field and laboratory work, and also related to deeply seated, western notions of male versus...