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Análisis calendárico de las orientaciones astronómicas de la arquitectura de Tamtoc, San Luis Potosí. La importancia de su latitud geográfica y el uso del paisaje (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Martz. David Wood.

En la actualidad la Zona Arqueológica de Tamtoc, un área cívico-ceremonial prehispánica de larga duración, presenta un porcentaje considerable de estructuras liberadas, cuya arquitectura expuesta ha permitido al Proyecto Arqueológico Origen y Desarrollo del Paisaje Urbano de Tamtoc, dirigido por Estela Martínez y Guillermo Córdova, el realizar un estudio metodológico de sus orientaciones y las posibles relaciones que guardan entre ellas. Cabe decir que este tipo de trabajo genera un antecedente...


Cosmology in the New World
PROJECT Santa Fe Institute.

This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.


Nellis Air Force Base Archaeology and Landforms Calendars 2003-2018 (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

Nellis AFB produces a yearly calendar featuring archaeological sites on site.


On the Fall of Copan, Teotihuacan, and the Origins of the Fate of 8 Ahau (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley Guenter.

"A Forest of Kings" was groundbreaking for its integration of epigraphy, archaeology, and ethnohistory. In their book, Schele and Freidel discussed the Early Classic Teotihuacan-Maya cultural and political interaction as well as the fall of Copan, and the larger issue of the collapse of Classic Maya cities, and even the fall of Postclassic Mayapan. In this presentation I wish to expand on and integrate these disparate themes in an effort to answer the question of why the Colonial era Maya...


Present-Day Use of Ancient Calendars among the Lowland Mixe (1960)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles E. Mann. Robert Chadwick.

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The Role of Venus in the Cosmologies of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Southeast (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Polly Schaafsma. Ed Krupp. George Lankford. Mike Mathiowetz. Susan Milbrath.

This paper describes differing but related views of the meanings of Venus in Central Mexico, West Mexico, the U.S. Southwest, and the Eastern Woodlands.


Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson. Stephen Lekson. Ivan Sprajc. Kenneth Sassaman.

In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.


The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text George Cowgill.

In this paper, George Cowgill focuses on how Mesoamericans used worldviews and ideologies in sociopolitical ways. More specifically, Cowgill argues that specific sociopolitical ideologies arise when there is a shared worldview.