Highland Mesoamerica: Classic (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda R. Manzanilla.

This is an abstract from the "The Palace of Xalla in Teotihuacan: A Possible Seat of Power in the Ancient Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The palace of Xalla is located between the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. It is a 55,000 m2 palatial complex with plazas, structures, rooms, porticoes, and patios, surrounded by a double wall for patrol walk. It has been excavated extensively by Linda R. Manzanilla and her team from 2000 to 2020,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rex Koontz.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Maize and Cacao: Reflections on Visual and Textual Representation and Archaeological Evidence of Other Plants in Precolumbian Mesoamerica" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The presence of maguey in key iconographic programs at the major Classic Veracruz site of El Tajín has been explained largely through a hypothetical pulque cult at the site. This presentation will both extend and debate this interpretation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Hsu. Nawa Sugiyama.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Cities: Perspectives from the New and Old Worlds on Wild Foods, Agriculture, and Urban Subsistence Economies" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Animals are invariably integrated into the intricate makings of human culture, providing material evidence to reconstruct ancient urban foodways that influence and structure sociopolitical identities, practices, and ideologies. We explore the concept of production and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Javier Quezada-Euán.

This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Beekeeping: Recent Studies in Ecology, Archaeology, History, and Ethnography in Yucatán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La meliponicultura en México, así como en gran parte del mundo, ha experimentado un creciente interés y popularidad. Un mayor número de personas y grupos se están involucrando en la actividad lo que ha llevado a su expansión tanto de las regiones donde se practica, como en el número de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricio Gutierrez. Alfonso Gastelum. José Luis Punzo Díaz. Lissandra González. Dante Martínez.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in South Central Michoacán México, Ongoing Studies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scant attention has been paid to the past of the current border of the states of Michoacán and Estado de México, though there has been a proposed local archaeological traditions for the region in order to understand archaeological contexts. There are archaeological data about large carved stone sculptures which can lay the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Lozano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous studies have illustrated the continuing relationship between the Maya area and the Basin of Mexico, especially with the presence of Maya iconography at the site of Teotihuacan. Maya imagery can be seen in diverse cultural materials such as ceramics and stucco-painted murals. For example, researchers have argued that the stucco-painted murals at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Axel Andrade Pérez. Karla Itzel López Carranco.

Se muestra el trabajo realizado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Cuenca del Río el Maíz en coparticipación con las autoridades municipales y la comunidad de Santos Reyes Nopala, la Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental y el Departamento de Mecatrónica de la Universidad Tecnológica de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, como una contribución al estudio científico de la arqueología de la región, cuyo objetivo principal consistió en la investigación, salvaguarda, rescate y difusión consciente...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Ramon Celis.

El proyecto arqueológico "Cerro del Gallo", se desprende de los trabajos de investigación realizados en el Conjunto Monumental de Atzompa, dentro del sitio arqueológico de Monte Albán. La participación de diversos actores de la población civil, gubernamentales y de la iniciativa privada ha podido concatenarse de tal forma que, se ha podido construir de manera satisfactoria un ambicioso proyecto de investigación, que involucra además de un objetivo académico como lo es el discernir los procesos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Lapham. Gary M. Feinman. Linda M. Nicholas.

The domestic dog (Canis familiaris) became a staple in the meat diet of Zapotec peoples during the Formative period (1500 BC – AD 200) in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, and continued to be increasingly important in subsistence and ritual into the Classic and Postclassic periods. Recent zooarchaeological research has identified low-intensity household management/production of animals and animal by-products at sites throughout the valley, with each settlement marked by its own unique signature of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrés Mejía Ramón. Nadia Johnson. Christian John.

This is an abstract from the "Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Proponents of collective and autocratic models of Teotihuacan’s sociopolitical organization relate the control and ritual of water to the development of complex society, but how such institutions materialize on the landscape remains poorly understood. We present evidence from six years of archaeological survey,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carballo. Daniela Hernández Sariñana. Maria Codlin. Alfredo Saucedo Zavala. Gloria Torres Rodríguez.

This is an abstract from the "Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations of the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT) in 2019 focused on the southern neighborhood center of this cluster of non-elite residences in the southern periphery of the ancient Mexican metropolis. Research objectives included understanding the social infrastructure of public space...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlin Ahern.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1959, the Teotihuacan Mapping Project, led by Rene Millon, excavated at the site of Plaza One in Teotihuacan and acquired a myriad of artifacts, including lime plaster samples. This presentation focuses on the examination of these plaster samples via Optical Microscopy and SEM-EDS, which are used to evaluate the similarities and differences in the building...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xóchitl Martínez Martínez. Cesar Dante García Ríos. Eduardo García Wigueras.

This is an abstract from the "Avances en los estudios de la arquitectura de Monte Albán" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las exploraciones arqueológicas del Edificio P de Monte Albán, enmarcadas en el Proyecto de Conservación de los Edificios dañados por los Sismos del 2017 en Monte Albán-Atzompa, han permitido identificar evidencias arqueológicas que muestran las etapas y sistemas constructivos que se realizaron en el mismo entre el Clásico...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Elliott. Yoanna Herrera-Santos.

This is an abstract from the "Central Mexico after Teotihuacan: Everyday Life and the (Re)Making of Epiclassic Communities" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Chicoloapan Viejo represents a long-term occupation that spanned multiple cultural phases, each associated with changes in population size, settlement pattern, and sociopolitical organization. These changes were also accompanied by climatic fluctuations of varying intensity. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Somerville.

This is an abstract from the "Journeying to the South, from Mimbres (New Mexico) to Malpaso (Zacatecas) and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Ben A. Nelson" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stable isotope values of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in animal bones are influenced by the environmental and climatic conditions present during the lifetime of the organisms. Stable isotope analysis of faunal bones thus permits the reconstruction of past environmental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Hirth. Susan Hirth. George Hasemann. Gloria Lata-Pinto.

This is an abstract from the "Innovations and Transformations in Mesoamerican Research: Recent and Revised Insights of Ancestral Lifeways" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reconstructing past ritual events is always a challenge under the best of archaeological conditions. Between cal AD 238 and 352 the ancient residents of the site of Salitrón Viejo accumulated an assemblage of carved jade and marble artifacts that were used in a series of ritual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nelly Robles Garcia.

Las estelas grabadas de Monte Albán, que forman parte del sistema de escritura más antiguo de América, se han enfrentado a serios peligros de deterioros a lo largo de su historia pasada y reciente. Elaboradas desde 500 a.C., se encuentran entre las más importantes de la escritura prehispánica de las culturas mesoamericanas. En 1994, se tomó la decisión de reunir la mayoría de estelas sueltas de los contextos no originales en una bodega provisional que causó resultados adversos. A partir de 2006...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Woods.

This is an abstract from the "Ceremonial Lithics of Mesoamerica: New Understandings of Technology, Distribution, and Symbolism of Eccentrics and Ritual Caches in the Maya World and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The manufacture of Mesoamerican flaked stone "profiles" involved a multi-step sequence from large percussion blank to detailed finishing using pressure-flaking. This paper explores issues involved with this last stage. Included is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marion Forest. Andrew Somerville.

This is an abstract from the "Central Mexico after Teotihuacan: Everyday Life and the (Re)Making of Epiclassic Communities" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent archaeological research in central Mexico has examined the transformations of prehispanic communities during the Epiclassic period (AD 550–850) from the perspective of Teotihuacan’s neighboring settlements and peripheral regions. Less attention, however, has been given to the concomitant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Nuckols-Wilde.

This is an abstract from the "Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-eighth century, Copan’s fifteenth ruler, K’ahk’ Yipyaj Chan K’awiil, oversaw the completion of Structure 10L-26 (or Temple 26), which was crowned with a stone inscription located within the superstructure. This inscription features a parallel display of Maya full-figure glyphs alongside...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Torras Freixa. Natalia Moragas Segura. Alessandra Pecci.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Urbanization is a global phenomenon with regional and temporal variations. By 2050, over two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Nevertheless, there is also the opposite process - deurbanization and the emergence of abandoned urban areas. The ancient city of Teotihuacan offers us a research framework to understand both processes because...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Jurado. Carolina Meza Rodriguez. Mario Cordova Tello. Gerardo Gutierrez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. San Ignacio is located in the Amatzinac Valley of Morelos, approximately 10 kilometers south of the Formative site of Chalcatzingo, where it was the regional center and largest site in Eastern Morelos during the Classic period (300 - 600 CE). Previous studies argued based on regional settlement data that San Ignacio was a possible Teotihuacan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Clayton. Angela Huster.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions during the Epiclassic and Early Postclassic (AD 650–1100) in the Central Highlands: New Insights from Material and Visual Culture" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Central Mexico’s Epiclassic period (550–850 CE) was a time of significant social change, marked by the breakdown of the Teotihuacan state, political fragmentation, the migration of large numbers of people, and the adoption of new practices and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Lara Tufiño.

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 análisis del contexto arqueológico sumergido, Media Luna, localizado en San Luis Potosí, México, ha permitido profundizar en los ritos mortuorios y en los actos de oblación que las comunidades de Río Verde realizaban en torno al agua durante el periodo Clásico y Posclásico Temprano...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin Davies.

Combining archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic data with an analysis of least cost routes, the current paper examines the network connections and craft industries that fueled Lake Atitlan’s prehispanic economy and connected it to the wider Mesoamerican World. The documentary evidence, which I synthesize here, indicates that the lake’s principle exports were perishable goods such as textiles, mats, rope products and foodstuffs. While insufficient to produce significant wealth, I argue...