Mesoamerica: Central Mexico (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hector Neff.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Deborah Nichols explored the relationship between subsistence, especially agriculture, and changing modes of settlement and social organization throughout her career. For the most part, her contributions on these topics focused on the Basin of Mexico, where early inhabitants clustered along the shores of shallow lakes, taking advantage of resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerome Offner.

This is an abstract from the "The Mexica Royal Court: A Symposium in Honour of Alfredo López Austin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multispectral and spectroscopic analysis of key sixteenth century graphic manuscripts, especially Mapa Quinatzin and Codex Xolotl, combined with the often-confused alphabetic sources dependent on them, are presented. New methods of digital annotation of the surface of such graphic manuscripts, or on any information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerardo Gutiérrez.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting a Legacy in Archaeology: Papers Celebrating the Career of Ken Hirth" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper evaluates evidence of lacquer work produced by sealing pigments and dyes fixed with organic polymers in early Honduras. We examine similarities and differences of Honduras lacquer work compared with other regions of the New World.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aurora Montúfar López.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Este trabajo informa de la arqueología, historia y etnografía de las principales plantas rituales cuyas estructuras: semillas, frutos, hojas, fibras (textiles) y resinas, fueron recuperadas en contextos de oblación y también en muestras sedimentológicas culturales de los sustratos del subsuelo del Recinto Ceremonial de México-Tenochtitlan, como parte de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frances Berdan.

This is an abstract from the "The Mexica Royal Court: A Symposium in Honour of Alfredo López Austin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the role of material things in the lives and fortunes of Aztec kings in the latter years of the Triple Alliance empire. Royal things ranged from expansive palaces (very big things) to a wide array of specific styles of clothing and body adornments. Exquisitely crafted and well-chosen things...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Milbrath.

This is an abstract from the "The Mexica Royal Court: A Symposium in Honour of Alfredo López Austin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A painting in the Ambras Castle (Innsbruck), dating between 1538 and 1556, includes a previously unrecognized portrait of Moctezuma’s son, don Pedro. This identification is based on comparisons with the Codex Cozcatzin (1v), which represents the place glyph of Tenochtitlan and the emperor Moctezuma with his daughter,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fieldwork at Otumba, directed by Deborah Nichols and Thomas Charlton, producednumerous important findings on the Aztec economy and urbanism. Otumba has played anoutsized role in our understanding of Aztec craft production and economic organization inparticular. The site has been presented as both prototypical example and outlier. Wecompare...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Martin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The extraordinary wall paintings of Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala, Mexico, have been the focus of much analysis and debate since their rediscovery in 1975. The hybridity of the images, in terms of both content and style, clearly demonstrates long-distance contact with the Maya Region during the Epiclassic Period (800-1000 CE), but the nature and meaning of that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gina Buckley.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting a Legacy in Archaeology: Papers Celebrating the Career of Ken Hirth" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We open this symposium with a tribute to Ken Hirth’s illustrious career, celebrating his significant contributions as a scholar and applied scientist in archaeology over the last five decades. As two of Dr. Hirth’s final students at Penn State, we honor our mentor for his invaluable guidance that helped launch...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Lentz.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting a Legacy in Archaeology: Papers Celebrating the Career of Ken Hirth" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Cajon Project, which began in the early 1980’s under the direction of Ken Hirth, initiated a new concept in Mesoamerican archaeology in the wet-and-dry Neotropics. The project sponsored a team of archaeobotanists with all of the necessary equipment to develop and conduct a systematic sampling strategy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blanca Maldonado.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting a Legacy in Archaeology: Papers Celebrating the Career of Ken Hirth" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research at Jicalán Viejo (ca. 1400-1609), in Central Michoacan, has located potential copper production areas where concentrations of manufacturing slag and other smelting byproducts were recorded. Multiple sources of data and documentary records provide a picture of the organization of metal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mauricio Cuevas.

This is an abstract from the "Disentangling Puebla/Tlaxcala: Recent Advances in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Visual Culture" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The legal and technical custody of archaeological sites in Mexico is entrusted by law to the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). This responsibility presents a significant challenge for researchers due to the vast number of sites across the country. Recently, a pilot...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Otárola-Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Deb Nichols' seminal work on agricultural risk mitigation demonstrates that food-security risk management has been crucial for human survival. This study builds on her legacy. Using a Human Behavioral Ecology perspective, we examine how pre-contact foraging and farming societies in the North American Great Plains navigated uncertainties brought by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Del Socorro Gámez Espinosa.

This is an abstract from the "Disentangling Puebla/Tlaxcala: Recent Advances in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Visual Culture" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los cerros y montañas son formaciones y elevaciones más sobresalientes del paisaje e históricamente han sido lugares privilegiados para la construcción de múltiples significados. Generalmente son considerados lugares sagrados y corazones de los territorios, que guardan los mantenimientos de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Gabriel Vicencio.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study uses data from multiple excavation projects to examine the procurement and production strategies of obsidian artifacts in Mexico’s Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley, focusing on the socioeconomic dynamics between different groups from the Middle Formative (900–500 BC) to the Late Postclassic (AD 1250–1519) periods. Geochemical and spatial analyses reveal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Healan.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Based on 45 years of field and laboratory research including participation in two projects co-directed by Deb Nichols, the author examines Mesoamerican prismatic core/blade technology from raw material acquisition through final product utilization and how it varied given the various contexts in which it functioned.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wesley Stoner.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Deb Nichols has been integral in reconstructing ancient trade relationships in the Basin of Mexico and beyond. My work with her has greatly augmented the study of ceramic exchange for the earliest contexts in central Mexico. I will focus on our study of Early to Late Formative ceramic production systems and touch briefly on how ceramic exchanges...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Lopez Varela.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To investigate gender dynamics in the late Viceroyalty of New Spain, Salgado examined the 1814 will of Mariano Timoteo Escandón y Llera, the third Count of Sierra Gorda, who resided in present-day Morelia, Mexico. An earlier transcription of this document details the property where Don Mariano lived from 1775 to 1814, including the objects within it. By...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Glenn Storey.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting a Legacy in Archaeology: Papers Celebrating the Career of Ken Hirth" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In his magisterial tome, The Organization of Ancient Economies: A Global Perspective, Kenneth Hirth made many observations based on his study of Greco-Roman patterns of commerce. He knew that the archaeology of Roman cities has provided literally hundreds of examples of shops and shopfronts, many embedded in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Earle.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting a Legacy in Archaeology: Papers Celebrating the Career of Ken Hirth" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> <b>With a lifetime’s work on prehistoric economies, Ken Hirth published a synthetic book The Organization of Ancient Economies (CUP, 2020). Impressed by the creativity and comprehensiveness of his synthesis, I proposed a collaboration with him on a working group with knowledge of particular cases across...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Maffie.

This is an abstract from the "The Mexica Royal Court: A Symposium in Honour of Alfredo López Austin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> One of the principal responsibilities of the Mexica tlatoani was renewing the agricultural cycle and more broadly, the entire 5^th Sun-Earth Ordering. He accomplished this by gifting the life-energies of countless human donors to Tonatiuh, Tlaloc, Tlaltecuhtli and other “deities” over the course of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alondra Trejo Ordoz.

This is an abstract from the "Disentangling Puebla/Tlaxcala: Recent Advances in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Visual Culture" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Cantona had human occupation from approximately 2,950 to 900 BP (Middle Formative to Early Classic) with two peaks, the first between the Terminal Formative and Early Classic (2,300 to 1,500 BP) and the second during the Late Classic after the fall of Teotihuacan (1300 to 1150 BP)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Stuart.

This is an abstract from the "The Mexica Royal Court: A Symposium in Honour of Alfredo López Austin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chapultepec is well known as a sacred mountain, water source, and ceremonial locale within the landscape immediately surrounding Tenochtitlan. Still visible today on the hill’s eastern slope is the sculpture of the deified portrait of Moteczomah Xocoyotzin, facing toward the main precinct and overlooking a large...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Pool.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Honor of Deborah L. Nichols" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper honors Deborah Nichols's legacy of research on craft production, exchange, and Formative period interregional interaction. In 2015 Stoner and Pool called for an “Archaeology of Disjuncture” to refocus attention on variation in intra- and interregional interaction, illustrating the approach with the case of the Classic period of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tom Dillehay.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting a Legacy in Archaeology: Papers Celebrating the Career of Ken Hirth" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation is a discussion of Ken Hirth's academic and professional contributions to the anthropology and archaeology program at the University of Kentucky when we were colleagues there in the 1980s and 90s. It also entails Ken's brief career in Peru where we first met, and other aspects of our...