Teotihuacan (Site Name Keyword)
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This article discusses the role of ancestors in New World cosmologies. Specifically, it gives examples of how ancestors mediate cosmologies through sensory experiences, things, and places. In Eastern North America, ancestors were engaged in posts, bundles, stars, mounds, and temples. In the American Southwest, “conceptual packages” of wind, water, and breath represented the cosmological force shared by humans, ancestors, and places. Mesoamericans transformed the dead into ancestors by...
Cosmology in the New World
This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.
La Ventilla Chronology Supplemental Materials (2023)
Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14C) dates (n = 78) from human bone collagen were analyzed in the largest high-resolution chronology study to date at the ancient city of Teotihuacan in central Mexico (ca. AD 1–550). Samples originate from the residential neighborhood of La Ventilla, located in the heart of this major urban center. Here, a trapezoidal model using Bayesian statistics is built from 14C dates combined with data derived from the stylistic analysis of ceramics from...
La Ventilla Radiocarbon Bayesian Chronology
AMS radiocarbon dates (n = 78) from human bone collagen were analyzed in the largest high-resolution chronology study to date at the ancient city of Teotihuacan in central Mexico (c. AD 1–550). Samples originate from the residential neighborhood of La Ventilla, located in the heart of this major urban center. Here, a trapezoidal model using Bayesian statistics is built from 14C dates combined with data derived from the stylistic analysis of ceramics from burial contexts. Based on this model, we...
N3W7 (2023)
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N4W3 (2023)
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N6W5 (2023)
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N7W4 (2023)
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An Outline of the Ceramics of Teotihuacan, Mexico (2006)
This is an article- or manuscript-length description of the ceramics of Teotihucan, Mexico. It covers ceramic wares, decorative methods and motifs, and appendages, with a review of the Basin of Mexico sequence.
Paleoethnobotany of Otumba 1. Flotation Samples Processed
This is a list of the sediment samples that were collected and floted for macrobotanical analysis. The results of the analysis can be found in the "Results of macrobotanical analysis" table (resource 2). For Paleoethnobotany of Otumba project.
Projecto Paleoetnobotanico del Barrio Oaxaqueno (Tlailotlacan) 2. Results of macrobotanical analysis
This table lists the results of the macrobotanical analysis for each sample listed in the "Flotation Samples Processed" table (resource 1). For the Projecto Paleoetnobotanico del Barrio Oaxaqueno (Tlailotlacan)
Proto Quetzalcoatl (2010)
This is a proto image of Quetzalcoatl, Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Dates to AD 400. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.
Proto Tlaloc (2010)
Proto image of Tlaloc, Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, Mexico. Dates to AD 400. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.
Proyecto Palacio de Quetzalcoatl
Analysis of macrobotanical remains recovered through flotation of sediment excavated from the Feathered Serpent Pyramid at Teotihuacan in 1988 and 1989. The analysis of the macrobotanical material was directed by Emily McClung de Tapia (Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas, UNAM). The excavations were directed by Ruben Cabrera (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia), Saburo Sugiyama (Arizona State University), and George Cowgill (Arizona State University). Associated project...
RITUAL DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL IDENTITIES: A STUDY OF MORTUARY BEHAVIORS AT TEOTIHUACAN (2009)
The research presented here confronts the issue of ritual variation and its role in structuring the social dynamics of ancient Teotihuacan, a state that dominated central Mexico during the first half-millennium A.D. Most of Teotihuacan’s urban population lived in apartment compounds located across the city, but the nature of these co-residing groups is not well understood. Even less is known about how subordinate settlements beyond the city limits were organized and to what degree they...
S1E3 (2023)
Site Survey Record Form Scan for Square S1E3
S1W5 (2023)
Site Survey Form Scan for Square S1W5
S2W3 (2023)
SIte Survey Form Scan for Square S2W3
S5W3 (2023)
Site Survey Form Scan for Square S5W3
S6W3 (2023)
Site Survey Form Scan for Square S6W3
Settlement data from the 1960-1975 Basin of Mexico Surveys (2014)
Data analyzed in Ortman, S. G., A. H. F. Cabaniss, J. Sturm, and L. M. A. Bettencourt, The Pre-History of Urban Scaling, PLOS ONE (Feb. 2014).
Settlement Scaling and Increasing Returns in an Ancient Society (2015)
Main text and SI of published paper in PDF format. The SI includes a series of datasets derived from the Basin of Mexico surveys that are analyzed in the main text.
Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions (2010)
In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.
Social Reactors Project datasets
Datasets from various publications of the Social Reactors Project
The Storm God, Feathered Serpents, and Possible Rulers at Teotihuacan (2007)
In this paper, George Cowgill focuses on how Mesoamericans used worldviews and ideologies in sociopolitical ways. More specifically, Cowgill argues that specific sociopolitical ideologies arise when there is a shared worldview.