Teotihuacan Valley (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "What Happened after the Fall of Teotihuacan?" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The fall of the metropolis of Teotihuacan with the 570 CE great fire in the core of the settlement shook Mesoamerica. Demographic displacements, balkanization into small polities, military competition between sites, were all events of the so-called Epiclassic. This symposium will review data from my interdisciplinary project “The Study of...
Prehispanic plant remains from Altica, Teotihuacan Valley Mexico (2017)
Altica, situated in the southeastern sector of the Teotihuacan Valley, represents the earliest known farming community in this region. Its importance lies in the potential for the recovery of evidence for domestic plant use by these early inhabitants. Plant remains recovered over several decades in the Teotihuacan Valley provide an idea of the predominant plant communities in the area during the Early-Middle Formative, an indicator of local environmental conditions. Preliminary results from the...