Toltec, Tula, Teotihuacan (Other Keyword)
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Pumas and Vultures and Wolves, Oh My! The Appropriation and Alteration of Teotihuacan Processing Predators at Tula (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Animal Symbolism in Postclassic Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Cecelia Klein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the predatory animals on the relief friezes of Pyramid B at Tula, clearly based on Teotihuacan models originally expressed in different media and contexts--murals in interior spaces--and the possible reasons for both Tula's borrowing of this imagery and its redeployment in sculpture in the...