Central Mexico after Teotihuacan: Everyday Life and the (Re)Making of Epiclassic Communities
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Central Mexico after Teotihuacan: Everyday Life and the (Re)Making of Epiclassic Communities" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Epiclassic period, from about 550 to 850 CE, was a time of extraordinary social, political, and economic change in central Mexico. The Teotihuacan state had broken down, its governing institutions dissolved, and the population of its capital diminished to a fraction of its former size. The release of Teotihuacan’s grip over the surrounding region transformed a formerly consolidated subject territory into a fractious sociopolitical landscape coping with instability and conflict. However, this was also a time of remarkable innovation, growth, and resilience, as people moved, formed new communities, restructured networks of exchange, and adopted novel practices and institutions. In this symposium, we present recent and current research that examines these changes through diverse lenses, including everyday practices and material culture, landscape use and modification, and the sociopolitical and spatial organization of communities. Archaeological, biogeochemical, geophysical, and paleoethnobotanical research focusing on settlements near Teotihuacan and in surrounding regions will be discussed.
Other Keywords
Highland Mesoamerica: Classic •
Political economy •
Collapse •
Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic •
Migration •
Chronology •
Diet •
Survey •
Paleoethnobotany •
Urbanism
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Hidalgo (State / Territory) •
Colima (State / Territory) •
Queretaro (State / Territory) •
Michoacan (State / Territory) •
Mexico (State / Territory) •
Morelos (State / Territory) •
Jalisco (State / Territory) •
Nayarit (State / Territory)
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- Aspectos de aprovisionamiento y uso de la obsidiana en Chicoloapan Viejo, un asentamiento Epiclásico en la Cuenca de México (2021)
- Ceramic Chronology in the Absence of a Horizon (2021)
- "Closed by Refurbishment": A General Overview of Teotihuacan from Classic to Epiclassic Times (2021)
- Creating the Pax Tolteca: Diversity, Autonomy, and Centralization from the Epiclassic to the Early Postclassic Periods in the Northern Basin of Mexico (2021)
- The Epiclassic outside of the Basin: Measuring Population and Settlement Dynamics in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley, Mexico (2021)
- Geophysical Studies in the Archaeological Site of Chicoloapan, Estado de Mexico (2021)
- Imported Imperialism: The Impact, Aftermath, and Lasting Political Legacy of Teotihuacan in the Maya Lowlands (2021)
- Isotopic Diet and Migration at Chicoloapan Viejo, Mexico (2021)
- Life after Teotihuacan: Everyday Practices and Community Formation at Chicoloapan, Mexico (2021)
- Reconstructing Land-Use and Socio-environmental Change at Epiclassic Chicoloapan Using Plant Macroremain Analyses (2021)
- Return to Hacienda Metepec: Exploring Continuity and Change at Teotihuacan (2021)