Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Friends and colleagues of Michael Lind were heartbroken to learn of his passing in late 2019. Mickey was a graduate of the University of Arizona with research specialization in precolumbian cultures. He went on to teach at the Universidad de las Americas in Cholula, Puebla, before finishing his career in the Santa Ana School District. Following retirement, his scholarship went into high gear. The scope of Lind’s interests was vast, encompassing detailed analysis of context and content of ceramics he excavated at households in the Mixteca Alta to a magisterial synthesis of Zapotec religion at the time of the Spanish conquest. His excavations and subsequent analyses of Cholula’s ethnohistorical accounts have profoundly shaped reinterpretations of the Postclassic period for this highland religious center. Excavations at the Valley of Oaxaca center of Lambityeco resulted in a long-awaited volume on Zapotec political and religious structures. This symposium is designed to celebrate the legacy of Mickey Lind, with contributions by students and lifelong friends who have been influenced by his teachings and collaborations on the archaeology and ethnohistory of Cholula, the Mixteca Alta, and the Zapotecs of Oaxaca.
Other Keywords
Ceramic Analysis •
Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic •
Chronology •
Zooarchaeology •
Survey •
Trade and exchange •
Settlement patterns •
Household Archaeology •
Indigenous •
Formative
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Oaxaca (State / Territory) •
Mesoamerica: Oaxaca or Southern Highlands •
Hidalgo (State / Territory) •
Colima (State / Territory) •
Michoacan (State / Territory) •
Mexico (State / Territory) •
Morelos (State / Territory) •
Tlaxcala (State / Territory)
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Changes in Settlement, Resource Extraction, and Trade in the Lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico, between the Late Classic and Late Postclassic Periods (CE 500–1522) (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Michael Lind investigated major sociopolitical changes between the Late Classic and Postclassic periods in Oaxaca, particularly involving Mixtec and Zapotec peoples. His interpretations integrated both ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence. In the lower Río Verde Valley, an ethnohistoric record provides insight into the...
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Excavaciones en un barrio de Cholula (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Se reportan las excavaciones realizadas en los terrenos de la UDLAP en los años 1968 y 1979 a 1 km al este de la Gran Pirámide de Cholula. En 1968 se localizó un parte de un complejo habitacional y se identificaron diferentes áreas de actividades, entre ellas un horno para la producción de cerámica. En 1979, a 30 m al este...
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“International” Concepts: A Design Analysis of Yanhuitlan Red on Cream Ceramics from Postclassic Etlatongo (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While the Mixtec region of Oaxaca is famous for its polychrome ceramics, including the iconographically rich “codex style” pottery, in this paper we argue that non-polychrome ceramics also played a significant role in conveying particular messages associated with ongoing social and political rearticulations during the...
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Lambityeco Oaxaca and Domestic Organization during the Xoo Phase (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper focuses on domestic household organization at the Late Classic period site of Lambityeco in the Valley of Oaxaca and complements the important work of Michael Lind on political organization there. Excavations carried out at Lambityeco in 2002–2003 under the auspices of INAH explored 17 commoner houses, 9 tombs,...
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Reinventing the Early Postclassic of Cholula: Results from the UA-1 Household Compounds (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The culture history of Cholula (Puebla, Mexico) has been a roller coaster as different scholars with different paradigms have radically altered direction over the past 100 years. Consequently, when I got onboard the consensus was that Cholula had been abandoned at the end of the Classic period, in the same way as Teotihuacan,...
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Where Text Meets Trowel: Using an Integrative Approach to Consider Internal Sociopolitical Dynamics at Postclassic Etlatongo (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca is fortunate to have an impressive corpus of pre- and postconquest ethnohistorical sources that have been the focus of intensive academic scrutiny. Yet, emphasis on these sources provides an incomplete picture where only the histories of polities mentioned in the texts are taken as central, often to...
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The Work of Feline Bones and Feline Imagery at Early Horizon Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Large felines play crucial roles in origin narratives, cosmologies, and political authority in Mesoamerican societies, yet actual faunal remains and feline imagery are uncommon for the Early Horizon, from 1400 to 1000 cal BCE, especially in the highlands. Feline imagery appears in the stone sculptural corpus of the Gulf Olmec...