Highland Mesoamerica: Classic (Other Keyword)
201-217 (217 Records)
This is an abstract from the "Aproximaciones arqueológicas y paleontológicas en Santa Lucía, México" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Se hará una revisión de los antecedentes arqueológicos en la zona, dónde el principal asentamiento corresponde al islote artificial de Xaltocan, de filiación otomí, y cuya fundación data del periodo Posclásico temprano y se reconoce por la presencia de cerámica azteca I y II, sin embargo, en el Proyecto de Salvamento...
The Tunnels in Teotihuacan: Geology and Technology to Extract Tezontle (2024)
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. This paper aims to review how the Teotihuacanos took advantage of the available geological resources for the construction of the city. The study of the geological characteristics of the Teotihuacan Valley has revealed that what we presently observe is the consequence of the long-term volcanic activity produced in several steps. First, a...
Tying Sacred Places to the Landscape in Jalisco, Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People in the Tequila valleys region of Jalisco, Mexico constructed unique circular, ceremonial, monumental architecture. The public architecture has been previously argued to represent the Mesoamerican cosmos with the central altar representing a sacred mountain. I explore whether this public architecture shared in the Mesoamerican tradition of tying sacred...
Técnica y secuencia constructiva de la arquitectura prehispánica de Matacanela, Los Tuxtlas, Ver. (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Olmec Manifestations and Ongoing Societal Transformations in the Tuxtlas Uplands: A View from Matacanela" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Matacanela es componente esencia de la historia regional de Los Tuxtlas, su estudio es fundamental para la comprensión de la dinámica social diacrónica y sincrónica que se dio en la región. El sitio cuenta con una secuencia ocupacional desde el Formativo Medio hasta el Clásico Tardío...
Un basurero prehispánico en el valle intermontano de Maltrata, Veracruz (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Un basurero es parte de la vida cotidiana de una familia, allí se va depositando todos los desechos que en un tiempo fueron de utilidad, tanto restos de comida como utensilios. Por ello el hallazgo de un basurero prehispánico en un contexto habitacional es de gran importancia para reconstruir parte de la vida cotidiana de una familia: que tipos de vasija...
Understanding Food Production in Teotihuacan: New Approaches (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean Cities: Old Debates, New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Teotihuacan was one of the largest and most prominent ancient cities in Mesoamerica during the Classic period (150-600 CE). The city housed an estimated population of 100,000 people at its height, all in need of food, shelter, and basic necessities. Spaces dedicated to the production and consumption of foodstuffs in...
Urban growth and land use at Chicoloapan, an Epiclassic town in the southern Basin of Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 1" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The extensive surveys of the 1960s that culminated in Sanders, Parsons, and Santley’s pivotal 1979 volume put numerous archaeological sites on the map and advanced knowledge of the changing sociopolitical landscape of the Basin of Mexico through time. Data resulting from this work,...
Urban Palimpsest Landscapes: Interpreting the Teotihuacan LiDAR map (2019)
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. With 54% of the world’s population living in urban zones, investigating the nature and impact of urban centers has never been more relevant. Archaeology’s unique ability to reconstruct prehistoric urban systems across the long dureé makes the Pre-Columbian metropolis of...
Violence and Veneration at the Edges: Mortuary Traditions and Social Order along the Northern and Southern Frontiers of Mesoamerica (2019)
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. The northern and southern frontiers of Mesoamerica are about 2000 km apart and are separated by an incredible diversity of peoples and environments. Yet, these frontier spaces appear to be developmentally similar in many ways during the period ca. AD 500-1000, including...
What Happened on Monte Albán’s Main Plaza? Insights from a Socio-Spatial-Sensory Analysis (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite increasing scholarly interest in the role of plazas in prehispanic Mesoamerica, we still have a relatively incomplete understanding of what actually occurred in such places. In this paper, we address this vexing question for the Main Plaza at Monte Albán in Oaxaca, Mexico. Our study draws on data from recent fieldwork on the Main Plaza, including...
Women and Ritual at Teotihuacan, Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Role of Women in Mesoamerican Ritual" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Teotihuacan is a complex multiethnic urban metropolis whose history is slowly becoming more nuanced after more than 100 years of research. Despite the recent attention that this Mesoamerican city has received, we still have many questions, among them, about the role of women, their life histories, their identities, and their role in the ritual...
Xochicalco and Teotenango: New Approaches on Their Interactions (750–1150 CE) (2024)
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. Since the 1950s, Xochicalco (Morelos) and Teotenango (state of Mexico) have been constantly compared and assumed as two Epiclassic cities. The hypothesis of their contemporaneity and interaction is derived from their similarities in terms of...
Xochitécatl-Cacaxtla: Una ciudad dos veces abandonada (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean Cities: Old Debates, New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El tema del abandono de las ciudades arqueológicas, se ha tratado en muchos estudios, pero en este caso la particularidad es el “retorno”, en Xochitecatl-Cacaxtla se identifican dos periodos de ocupación, el primero de 800 aC a 200 dC, y el segundo del año 650 dC al 950 dC. La causa del primer abandono fue la erupción...
Years to Remember: Another Look at Teotihuacan’s Calendrical Signs (2021)
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. We offer a new look at a series of carved monuments and examples of rock art from Classic Teotihuacan culture (ca. AD 100–500) of highland central Mexico, all of which bear single calendrical dates in the 260-day calendar. Monuments such as those of Cerro Xoconoch and the Plaza de las Columnas serve as records...
Zapotec Funerary Rites as Documented by Alfonso Caso: Mining Archival Materials to Understand Ancient Ritual Behavior at Monte Albán (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The precolumbian site of Monte Albán in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, presents a continuing challenge for scholars because the earliest scientific excavations at the site, conducted in the 1930s by noted archaeologist Alfonso Caso and his collaborators, were only partially published. This is particularly disappointing since many of the tombs of Monte Alban were...
Zapotec Funerary Tradition: A Perspective Between Bioarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Living and Dying in Mountain and Highland Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The state of Oaxaca, southern Mexico has a very diverse topography, from highlands to floodplains, where mortuary and funerary patterns have been practiced by the prehispanic indigenous Zapotec for at least 3000 years. From simple graves to very complex and elaborate tombs, the Zapotecs used and reused their mortuary space within the...
A Zooarchaeological Reconstruction of the Grand Feast of Plaza of the Columns, Teotihuacan (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Offering D1 represents the residue of an extravagant feast, involving a plethora of artifacts, over 25,000 ceramic fragments, and more than 50,000 animal bones ceremoniously “killed” and discarded in a pit excavated in an old plaza floor. We present the zooarchaeological report of this assemblage, focusing on...