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Las investigaciones arqueológicas e históricas sobre la ciudad y estado Posclásico de Tlaxcallan muestran que éstos fueron construidos a través de estrategias político-económicas altamente colectivas. El resultado de dichas estrategias fue una República que enfatizó la toma de decisiones por consejo, la justicia social, el reconocimiento de mérito y el abasto de bienes públicos (especialmente seguridad pública y redistribución de riqueza acumulada por el Estado). La prospección sistemática de la...
El Gran Chiriquí desde Veraguas: dinámicas fronterizas y definición subregional (2018)
Se presenta una re-evaluación de la frontera oriental del Gran Chiriquí y su relación con la sub-región de Veraguas del Gran Coclé en Panamá Central. A partir de hallazgos recientes de petrograbados en el sur de Veraguas y una revisión de la literatura, se reconocen las limitantes inherentes a una definición estática de fronteras culturales y se analiza la "chiricanidad" de la cultura material veragüense como ejemplo de las dinámicas históricas en la conformación de entidades regionales. Se...
El Juego de Pelota del valle de Maltrata y su contexto cultural (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Los Rituales del Juego de Pelota en la Costa del Golfo / Ballgame Rituals in the Gulf Lowlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El juego de pelota es un tema que ha llamado la atención a numerosos investigadores, algunos se han centrado en el estudio arquitectónico, otros desarrollan enfoques iconográficos o propuestas de rituales basados en evidencias como en el Tajín. En otros lugares, solo se distinguen las...
El Maya de los Sindagua y el Awá-Pitt contemporáneo (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En la literatura sobre los Sindagua producida en los siglos XX y XXI es un lugar común hablar sobre su exterminio a principios del siglo XVII. Sin embargo, es difícil sustentar esta aproximación al analizar las cifras que figuran en visitas y cuentas de tributarios de la...
El Palacio Norte de la Ciudadela, Conjunto 1D, Teotihuacan (2017)
Los trabajos de investigación arqueológica en el Palacio Norte de La Ciudadela de Teotihuacan permitieron establecer que dicho recinto fue construido en relación a la consolidación del poder estatal y su autoridad además de su legitimación. Lo anterior en la búsqueda del reconocimiento de la población hacía los funcionarios que representaban un sistema económico, politico, y religioso, como un todo, basado en instituciones estructuradas de manera tal que, regían todos los aspectos de la vida de...
EL REGISTRO DE LOS MONUMENTOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS COMO UNA FORMA DE PROTECCIÓN (2017)
El registro de los monumentos arqueológicos, muebles e inmuebles, que de acuerdo con la legislación mexicana vigente, son patrimonio de la nación, implica, amén de un ejercicio académico, un instrumento legal de protección, en tanto que significa el reconocimiento de la existencia física de dichos bienes patrimoniales, a través de su inscripción en un Registro Público. Esta tarea, iniciada hace más de setenta y cinco años, está encomendada al Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH),...
El Sitio Arcaico Temprano de las Estacas (Morelos) y Su Tecnología de Hogares (2018)
Se analizan y discuten las evidencias arqueológicas relativas a tres distintas modalidades de hogares del Arcaico, todos ellos documentados en una secuencia deposicional en el margen poniente del río Yautepec, diferenciados éstos por sus sistema constructivo, requerimientos de inversión de trabajo, potencial térmico y funcional, registrado uno en 2000 por el Proyecto Arqueobotánico Ticumán, y varios más en 2015 por el Proyecto Arqueológico Las Estacas (municipio de Tlaltizapán, Morelos, México)....
El sitio arqueológico de Barrigón. Un cementerio precolombino del Gran Chiriqui (2018)
We present a review of the data obtained during the "Proyecto de Rescate Arqueológico Estí (PRAE)" that took place between 2000-2003 in the context of the environmental mitigations of the Estí hydroelectric project; and with special attention to the Barrigón site. Barrigón is a cemetery site from prehispanic times localized near to the Gualaca city in Chiriqui province (Panamá). This kind of "necropolis" was placed in the flat top of a little hill a few meters from the Barrigón river. We...
El suelo arqueológico como mercancía: Problemas actuales sobre la conservación arqueológica en la Costa del Golfo (2017)
El suelo que sólo sea visto como una mercancía que otorgue seguridad económica y sobre el cuál no se regule su uso, adquiere una mayor complejidad al ser parte, además, de un contexto arqueológico. En este sentido, uno de los principales retos de la arqueología en México es conservar a largo plazo las zonas arqueológicas que la ley refiere y todos aquellos sitios de gran valor y extensión, que son investigados año con año y que requieren de un diseño de conservación como política cultural,...
Elementos de Prestigio en el Complejo Arquitectónico Quetzalpapálotl, Teotihuacán (2017)
El complejo arquitectónico Quetzalpapálotl ocupa un lugar privilegiado en la Plaza de la Luna, en el centro urbano de la antigua Teotihuacán. En recientes años (2009-2013) hemos realizado una investigación enfocada a comprender el uso de los espacios y su posible asociación con la élite teotihuacana, a través del reconocimiento de los elementos de prestigio que diferenciaron a sus ocupantes del resto de los pobladores. En esta ponencia expondremos nuevos datos respecto de la funcionalidad del...
Elephant-Hunting with D. Stanford (2018)
Dennis Stanford’s work at the Dutton, Selby, Lamb Spring, and Inglewood sites was a major part of his lifelong search for breakthrough evidence about North America’s earliest human encounters with mammoths. He encouraged me to study the megafaunal bones from those sites, and gave me room to disagree with him. His support allowed me to start looking into new ways to understand how the bones were modified and how such sites came to be. This presentation ties together data from those fossil sites...
Elite domestic spaces and daily life in a reduccion (2017)
The archaeology of Spanish colonialism in the Andean region is coming into increasing focus with the documentation of Spanish colonial doctrinas and reducciónes, along with the excavation of religious structures, public spaces, and elite and common indigenous households. However, we still lack a clear comparative diachronic perspective of how Spanish colonialism affected the daily lives and values of indigenous Andean peoples. This paper presents the results of the 2016 excavations of three...
Elizabeth Ann Morris: Dishwasher, Digger, Instructor, Professor (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Liz Morris (1932–2012) grew up surrounded by artifacts and archaeologists as the daughter of Earl and Ann Axtell Morris, renowned Southwestern and Mesoamerican archaeologists. She launched her own archaeological career in 1951 when she attended field camp at Pine Lawn, NM, where...
Embodiment and Relatedness: the rock art of Muluwa, Wulibirra, and Kamandarringabaya (2017)
As an interpretive tool for rock art studies, the concept of embodiment has much to offer especially when used in conjunction with ethnographic data. In this paper we focus on embodiment in the context of relatedness using a case study involving Yanyuwa rock art from three sites – Muluwa, Wulibirra, and Kamandaringabaya – in the Sir Edward Pellew islands in northern Australia’s southwest Gulf of Carpentaria region. Although not stylistically similar, the rock art from these sites is intimately...
Embodying Identities: The Human Figure in Pre-European Native American Art (2018)
Two- and three-dimensional human figures, and disembodied parts of figures, are commonly found across North America, and are considered important dimensions of Native American art. Figures appear in diverse media and sizes including stone, copper, shell, earthen effigy mounds, and petroglyphs/petrographs. In the literature, they are most frequently addressed as examples of art for the regions in which they are found, but rarely as pan-North American phenomena. A solely regional perspective...
The Emergence of Cultural Consensus in Hunter-Gatherers: Towards a Computer Model of Ethnogenesis in the Past (2017)
In this contribution we present the results of a computer simulation of an "artificial society", implemented to understand how cultural identities and cultural standardization may have emerged in a prehistoric hunter-gatherer society as a consequence of restricted cooperation. The aim of the model is to explain how diversity and self-identification may have emerged in the small-scale societies of our prehistoric past. The computer model explores some possible consequences of theoretical...
The Emergence of Social Complexity in the Precolumbian Socioceremonial Center of Java in Southern Costa Rica. (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The settlement of Java is a Precolumbian socioceremonial center located on a hilltop in the Coto Brus Valley, in Southern Costa Rica. An intensive survey of the site revealed that the main occupation of the site occurred several centuries earlier than previously thought. Java is one of the largest settlements from the Aguas Buenas period, with an area of...
The Emergence of the Kaqchikel Polity: Ethnogenesis in the Postclassic Guatemalan Highlands (2017)
In this paper I will explore how the western Kaqchikel managed from being military auxiliaries to the K’iche’ kingdom to become and independent and expansionist polity, and how this transition was reflected in the material culture of their two last settlements. I will use ethnohistorical documentation to inform how the western Kaqchikel conceived their auto determination, and how they reached it after they abandoned their first capital Chi Awar after breaking their political alliances with the...
Emergent Landscapes: Simulating the Distribution of Residential Features in a Hawaiian Dryland Agricultural System (2017)
Cultivation in the Leeward Kohala Field System (Hawai‘i Island) required sufficient rainfall for crops to flourish. Periodic droughts restricted production to upper elevations where orographic rainfall was higher and more dependable, likely influencing the labour needs and settlement patterns of resident populations. We employ a series of spatially-explicit agent based models incorporating cultural conceptions of kapu (sacred) and noa (profane) in conjunction with environmental parameters and...
The Emic, the Etic, and the Electronic: Digital Documentation in Northwestern Belize (2017)
Twenty-five years of archaeological research in northwestern Belize have yielded a robust regional database, allowing a rich and diverse picture of ancient Maya life to emerge. As part of this research, multiple projects have recently adopted innovative digital technologies using new methods to record and envision ancient sites in novel ways. This paper presents some of the ways in which researchers have engaged with digital technologies that allow for the collection of new types of data, as...
Empire in Ruins: Inca Urban Planning and the Colonial Occupation at Huánuco Pampa (2017)
Located in the Andean highlands of northern Peru, the Inca administrative center at Huánuco Pampa served as a provincial capital, drawing thousands of tributary households into scripted encounters with imperial officials on festive occasions. Inca site planning created spaces for performing diverse identities and reinforcing relationships between local people and Inca elites. After an unsuccessful Spanish attempt to establish a town within the central plaza of the site, Huánuco Pampa faded to...
Empowering Communities: Democratizing Knowledge Production in Science Communication through “The Community Archaeologist” (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Science communicators are in an unprecedented time of digital innovation and global connectivity that has given rise to accessible and engaging projects, including podcasts, TikToks, apps, and interactive websites. These platforms have demonstrated how the power to create and disseminate narratives can shift from a select few to the...
Encouraging Social Theory, Diversity, and All That Jazz (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although perhaps best known for his research and mentorship in archaeological science and African archaeology, David Killick has also mentored students who do more humanistic research and broadly encouraged diversity in the sciences, with far-reaching effects. For decades, his support of women and...
End-of-Life Purges of Massive Domestic Assemblages: Staging Archaeological Interventions and Reanimating the Social Lives of Discarded Belongings (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North American houses are among the largest in the world and, for the better part of a century, their occupants have been accumulating and storing possessions at a rate and volume unlike any other period in human history. These lifelong-amassed assemblages are rarely kept or valued by descendants, and at the conclusion of homeowners’ lives, the bulk of...
The Enduring Practice of Dental Modification in the Ecuadorian Past (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dental modification has been well-documented from the coast of Ecuador, with practices including elaborate dental inlays and incisions. However, few examples come from recently excavated or well-provenienced sites, making the antiquity and changing significance of dental modification unclear. Additionally, it is unclear whether this practice originated in...