The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This year (2019) marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of the seminal work by William Sanders, Jeffrey Parsons, and Robert Santley, The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization. The seminal nature of the book lies in its innovative approaches to understand the linkages between demographic growth, settlement location, social and political complexity, and both anthropogenic and nonhuman induced environmental processes. The paradigms and approaches that the book proposed framed the way archaeologists and other scientists have approached the evolution of society and environment is approached in the Basin of Mexico. This symposium aims at bringing together archaeologists and scientists devoted to the study of paleoenvironments to discuss the book’s legacy and to share subsequent and recent advances in the understanding of the processes that The Basin of Mexico tackled at its time. It intends to build on the multi-disciplinary spirit of the book to bring together archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and scholars working on environmental reconstructions of the basin. We also encourage researchers whose scope of study has sought to go even deeper into the past and to more recent periods in the area’s history.
Other Keywords
Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic •
Geoarchaeology •
Zooarchaeology •
Survey •
Landscape Archaeology •
Ceramic Analysis •
Settlement patterns •
Household Archaeology •
biodiversity •
Formative
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Tlaxcala (State / Territory) •
Hidalgo (State / Territory) •
Colima (State / Territory) •
Queretaro (State / Territory) •
Michoacan (State / Territory) •
Mexico (State / Territory) •
Morelos (State / Territory) •
Jalisco (State / Territory)
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Advances in the Study Archaeological Ceramics of the Epiclassic-Early Postclassic Basin of Mexico (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Basin of Mexico survey and related archaeological projects in the region provided not only a ceramic chronology, but also a legacy of archaeological materials available for continued research. Two key goals of the Basin of Mexico survey focused on relations among settlement...
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Between Two Empires: Conflict and Community during the Epiclassic Period in the Northern Basin of Mexico (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Epiclassic period (ca. 650-900 CE) in the Basin of Mexico is considered a time of social, cultural, political, and economic transformation and re-organization. Most perspectives stress that, after the collapse of the major state system centered at Teotihuacan, regional population...
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Comparison by Non-Metrical Traits of Xaltocan's Shrine vs. Teotihuacan in Mexico by Using a Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling Method (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is little information about the biological diversity of the populations that inhabited the Basin of Mexico. In this work we focused on showing the phenotypic differences between 118 skulls of the Xaltocan sanctuary and 44 adult skulls from Teotihuacan. It is not clear how this...
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Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Archaeozoology and Paleontology at the Basin of Mexico: A Reappraisal 40 Years after Early Views (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Back in 1970s, a great effort was undertaken to synthethize the knowledge of human and environmental relationships in the Basin of Mexico, which could be extended to at least 24,000 years BP. Since then, further studies were warranted after initial results and research has been...
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Taking it to the Tuxtlas: How the BoM Survey Shaped Gulf Lowland Settlements (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Robert S. Santley was a junior, third author of the path-breaking The Basin of Mexico (Sanders et al. 1979). Nonetheless, his contribution to the volume was substantial, including co-writing almost 50% of the entire 500+ pages of text and producing almost all of the drawings and...
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What Lies between the Dots: Exploring the Archaeology of the Broader Basin of Mexico Landscape (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Basin of Mexico survey established a diachronic palette of settlement locations that has served as the baseline for a wide range of studies. But settlements only comprise the nucleus of the most visible form of past human activities. A wide range of activities, agrarian and...