Aztatlán (Other Keyword)
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The rise of the Casas Grandes culture (AD 1200-1450) in Chihuahua, Mexico and the adoption of a new religion centered upon the Mesoamerican solar deity Xochipilli prefigured many of the social transformations that occurred among Pueblo cultures across the American Southwest by the fourteenth century. The appearance of new architecture of clear Mesoamerican derivation (e.g., I-shaped ballcourts) and imported finished objects of shell and copper in the Casas Grandes world indicates heightened...
The Early Postclassic Aztatlán Colonization of the Coast of Jalisco, Mexico (2016)
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...
Flying on the West: the Butterfly Imagery in the Aztatlán Iconography: Meaning and Worldview. (2017)
The Aztatlán Tradition is a widespread cultural and economical system in West and Northwest Mexico from AD 850 to 1300. The Aztatlán iconography is remarkable, not only because it is rich in the variety of images and icons related to the codices, but also because it reflects a concept related to the worldview of the Aztatlán groups (and others in Central Mexico and the Mixteca-Puebla region). Butterfly imagery seems to be part of it. Some of the ceremonial vessels used in rituals or found as...
La cerámica Aztatlán de Sinaloa y Nayarit. (2016)
Desde la excavación de Gordon Ekholm en Guasave en 1941, se consideró a la cerámica Aztatlán como una importación del centro de México. Algunos como el propio Ekholm y Hasso Von Winning mencionaron la posibilidad de que artesanos Mixteco-Poblanos hayan venido a enseñar su arte a los primitivos habitantes de la costa nayarita y sinaloense. Otros, más mesurados como Clement Meighan; Charles Kelley; Helmut Publ, Beatriz Braniff y John Pohl hablan de sistemas mercantiles de largo alcance e incluso...
Weaving Our Life: The Economy and Ideology of Cotton in Postclassic West Mexico (2016)
West Mexican archaeologists long have noted that around AD 900 the material culture record in this broad region exhibits a pronounced increase in the presence of modeled ceramic spindle whorls, particularly along the Pacific coastal plain of Nayarit and south-central Sinaloa. Although limited evidence of cotton in this region is present in the Classic period, the heightened cotton cultivation and consumption that seemed to accompany the dramatic social transformations in the Aztatlán culture...