Zapotec Heritage; Landscape; Memory; Iconography; Participatory Community Projects; Transition Class (Other Keyword)
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I’ya Xhína Santuario de la lluvia en San Juan Luvina, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The paper is dedicated to the presentation of the archaeological site of I'ya Xhína, the « Nose Mountain », in the zapotec Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, in Mexico. The site reveals a consecration to the worship of water and rain with a ritual pond at the summit of the mountain as well as an unknown Sierra Norte Zapotec’s version of the deity Quetzalcoatl named...