Lapidary (Other Keyword)
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After the defeat of Azcapotzalco in AD 1428, the rulers of Tenochtitlan employed different strategies to recreate and reinforce their identity during the Triple Alliance. One of them was the regional request of master artisans, called tolteca, for working at the Aztec capital. Some of these craftsmen and their workshops were located inside the palaces of the tlatoque. Among them were the jewelers that crafted sacred objects for the gods and prestige goods for the elites. The technological...
Lithic Production and Consumption at Tzintzuntzan, Mexico (2015)
Tzintzuntzan was the political capital of the Tarascan Empire and home to the royal uacúsecha dynasty during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1350-1525). This study presents the technological analysis of 1,155 lithic artifacts recovered during excavations at Tzintzuntzan from 1977 to 1978 and places these findings in context with prior lithic studies based on survey data. The excavation contexts include a palace, storehouse, residential structures, and the five ceremonial Yácatas located on the...
LOCAL OR FOREIGN? THE TECHNOLOGICAL STYLES OF THE LAPIDARY FROM TAMTOC (2015)
At Tamtoc, an archaeological site located at the Huastec region in San Luis Potosi, the archaeologists found hundreds of lapidary objects in the offerings and burials. Some of them were crafted in raw materials that were available locally, like the calcite, while others came from distant áreas, like the jadeite. But, their provenance was the same of their production? The purpose of this paper is to show how the technological analysis with Experimental Archaeology and the characterization of the...
Spheres of Production of the Lapidary Objects at the Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan: The Legitimacy and Extent of the Power of the Aztec Empire (2015)
In the Great Temple and the surrounding structures at the Sacred Precinct of Mexico Tenochtitlan, the archaeologists recovered thousands of lapidary objects devoted to the religious cult of the Mexica society. Great quantities of them were considered foreign productions or relics related with certain Mesoamerican styles and traditions. In this research we will show that the technological analysis, using Experimental Archaeology and the characterization of the manufacturing traces with SEM,...