Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind

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.