The Seventh Field Season of the Proyecto Templo Mayor: Recent Investigations on the Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
The fortuitous discovery of the Tlaltecuhtli Earth Goddess monolith in 2006 generated new investigations in the ruins of Tenochtitlan's sacred precinct. Since March 2007, an interdisciplinary and international team organized by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia has carried out topographic studies, geophysical prospection, microchemical analysis, and archaeological excavation in Mexico City's historic center. These activities have produced new data regarding the precinct's urban planning, the architectural and functional evolution of its religious structures, and the symbolism and economy of Mexica rituals carried out at the foot of the Templo Mayor in the decades prior to Spanish Conquest.
Other Keywords
Offerings •
Mexica •
symbolism •
Tenochtitlan •
Templo Mayor •
sun •
Aztec •
Paleopathology •
Effigy •
Monument
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
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- Animal captivity in Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct: Specialized diet and paleopathological analysis of golden eagles found in Offering 125 (2015)
- Botanical analysis of sediments in offerings and fill at Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple (2015)
- Feather headdresses among the offerings at Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple (2015)
- Graphic documentation of the mural painting in the sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan (2015)
- Images of death in Offering 141 of Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple: Human sacrifice and the symbolism of effigy skulls (2015)
- Images represented in the dressed flint knife offerings from the plaza west of Tenochtitlan's Great Temple (2015)
- Marine mollusks as evidence of Mexica imperial expansion (2015)
- A model of the Universe at the foot of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan. An approach to its meaning. (2015)
- New 3D Map of the Templo Mayor Architecture, a Symbol of Mexica Cosmology and Political Power with Teotihuacan Tradition (2015)
- Peces de las ofrendas asociadas a Tlaltecuhtli (2015)
- The polychromy of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan "Standard Bearers" (2015)
- The roseate spoonbills of Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple and their relation to deceased warriors, nobles, and kings (2015)
- The Sun, the Xiuhcoatl and the eagle: incense burners found at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2015)
- Wooden scepters in the offerings of Tenochtitlan’s Great Temple: A symbolic interpretation (2015)