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DOCUMENT Citation Only Edgar Rosales.

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. Mica, a shiny silicate mineral with a layered structure, was highly valued by the Teotihuacan people. Mica has unique physical properties, but we propose that the most striking one was of an optical nature, owing to the fact that it is a multicolored, specular material. The Teotihuacan elite groups...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Scott Baxter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For hundreds of years, people have used oyster shell to make cement and concrete, as a soil amendment, and as a dietary supplement for livestock. The shell has mostly been acquired as a byproduct of processing fresh oyster for food. However, in the late nineteenth century deposits of ancient, although not fossilized,...