Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The study of landscapes in archaeology has a long and venerable history. In the New World, Willey, Sanders, Kidder, Haury, Parsons, Piña Chan, Lorenzo, and Armillas, among others, began pioneering research that reoriented archaeology toward a regional perspective concerned with settlement patterns, population, and the environment, starting around the middle of the last century. This research agenda further evolved in the 1990s by incorporating geographical and historic perspectives drawn from Carl Sauer and Fernand Braudel and has thrived, making vital contributions. However, disciplinary isolation has partially impeded further development of archaeological research and its capacity to articulate with sister disciplines concerned with landscapes (e.g., historic studies, agroecology, common pool resource management, and sustainability, etc.). Also, engagement with paleoecology has tended to be sporadic, nonsystemic, and post hoc. Thus, this symposium seeks to bring together a group of scholars from within and outside of archaeology to address these lacunae with the goal of increasing dialogue with sister disciplines.

Other Keywords
Landscape Archaeology • Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic • Digital Archaeology: GIS • Survey • Historic • historical ecology • Maya: Classic • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Maya • Terraces

Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) • North America (Continent) • Colima (State / Territory) • Michoacan (State / Territory) • Hidalgo (State / Territory) • Mexico (State / Territory) • Morelos (State / Territory) • Jalisco (State / Territory) • Nayarit (State / Territory) • Aguascalientes (State / Territory)

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  • Common Pool Resourses, Collective Actions, and Landscapes: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Antorcha Pedemonte. Lane F. Fargher.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human modification of the environment with the goal of increasing productivity, variously referred to as landscape transformation, niche construction, environmental engineering, etc., has been recognized and studied...

  • The Contested Mosaic: Landscape and Livelihood in the Lacandon Rainforest (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Nigh.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper I explore the complex regional agroecological history of interaction of global and local social and biophysical forces that shape the landscape of an important tropical forest region of Mexico. This...

  • Desarrollo del sistema agrícola de terrazas en el Paisaje del sureste de la Cuenca de México (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Blanca Paredes Gudino.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El uso de un enfoque con carácter holístico, como lo es el concepto de Paisaje, ha permitido una visión y análisis integral en el estudio de las características sobre uno de los sistemas agrícolas tradicionales más...

  • Hacia un análisis arqueogeográfico de las dinámicas de las formas del paisaje (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Karine Lefebvre.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En México, desde hace varias décadas, diversos proyectos analizaron los datos históricos enfocándose en cortes cronológicos establecidos a partir de procesos históricos específicos, con el fin de comprender las...

  • La construcción del paisaje rural en pueblos del sur de Tlaxcala, México (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Hernán Salas.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los pueblos del sur de Tlaxcala, han construido su territorio desde las épocas prehispánicas, como lo atestiguan los sitios arqueológicos que aquí se ubican. Esta presentación considera, desde la antropología...

  • Landscape and Settlements in the Bolonchen District, Puuc Region, Mexico (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomas Gallareta Negron. Rossana May Ciau.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper combines the results of settlement and vegetation surveys in the Puuc Region of Yucatan, Mexico, with an emphasis in the Bolonchen District and the archaeological Maya site of Kiuic. The extensive...

  • Los caminos de la Sierra de las Cruces: Reflexiones sobre el significado del paisaje en la comunicación interregional (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rubén Nieto Hernandez. Yoko Sugiura.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El sistema montañoso que divide a la cuenca de México y el valle de Toluca, conocido como la sierra de las Cruces, constituyó, desde tiempos remotos, una región clave por la que ocurrieron desplazamientos...

  • Los volcanes y Xochitecatl-Cacaxtla un paisaje sagrado (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mari Carmen Serra Puche.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En épocas prehispánicas, las comunidades rodeadas de sierras, sistemas montañosos y, principalmente, por los grandes volcanes de la zona medía de Mesoamérica, poseyeron una estructura ritual íntimamente ligada con...

  • Space and Time for the Milpa-Forest Garden Cycle: A Model of the Ancient Maya Landscape of El Pilar (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Tran. Jason Woo. Thomas Crimmel. Anabel Ford. Sherman Horn III.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a critique of the temperate prejudice of the tropics, we embrace the hypothesis that the Maya forest represents a domesticated landscape to examine the settlement and environmental patterns of the ancient Maya of...

  • Swamp People: Landscape Building in the Ciénaga de Zimatlán, Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lane Fargher. Marc Marino. Xochitl Bautista. Angelica Costa.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Valle de Zimatlán, in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, is considered to have been a key zone for agricultural production during the prehispanic era, especially within the Río Atoyac’s floodplain. However, its...

  • The Tarascan Landscapes of the City of Tzintzuntzan: Dwelling in the Hillsides and in the Lakes (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelica Perez Diosdado. Fernanda Lucia Sandoval. José Luis Punzo.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient prehispanic city of Tzintzuntzan was a cosmopolitan and highly stratified settlement that is distributed between two great hills, the Tariaqueri and the Yahuarato. Its ancient builders gained flat land...

  • Territory and Ritual Landscape in the Colombino Codex: Oaxaca Coast, Mexico (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Pedro Urquijo.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through a geographical and historical analysis, we propose to interpret the territorial and ritual organization of the landscapes in the Colombino Codex, which alludes mainly to the heroic feats of Lord 8 Venado...

  • Una aproximación histórico-ecológica a los cambios en el paisaje del área costera de Sisal, Yucatán (1807-1990) (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriel Torales Ayala. Lane F. Fargher.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Esta presentación resume los resultados de una investigación sobre la historia del paisaje de la costa noroccidental de Yucatán. A pesar de la evidencia arqueológica prehispánica, la información sobre las...

  • War Milpas: Wetlands and Institutional Agriculture during the Late Postclassic in Tlaxcallan, Mexico (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Aurelio López Corral.

    This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Antigua Cienega de Tlaxcala is an area of wetlands located at the core of the Puebla-Tlaxcala valley in central Mexico. Historically, these marshlands have been exploited agriculturally using drained field...