Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Centro INAH-Michoacán has generated a research project that seeks to renew the knowledge of the ancient imperial capital of the Tarascan Señorío. This ancient city has been archaeologically studied for almost 90 years; however, there are many issues that have not been sufficiently addressed. This poster session seeks to present the data and studies achieved in the last three years by a group of consolidated researchers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
Other Keywords
Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic •
Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis •
digital archaeology •
Mortuary archaeology •
Quantitative and Spatial Analysis •
Taphonomy •
Spatial Distribution •
Landscape Archaeology •
Cremation •
LiDAR
Geographic Keywords
Colima (State / Territory) •
Michoacan (State / Territory) •
Jalisco (State / Territory) •
Nayarit (State / Territory) •
Aguascalientes (State / Territory) •
Guanajuato (State / Territory) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Mesoamerica: Western
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Bioarchaeology of Care of Fishing Community at Tzintzuntzan, Western Mexico: A Multimethod Approach (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Otitis and mastoiditis are conditions that produce deafness and disability in the pre-antibiotic era, especially in the fishing community. This study describes lesions on temporal bones in the Western Culture from Mexico living near Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. A sample (n = 41) of temporal bones from Tzintzuntzan sites was...
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Divine Food and the Warriors of Curicaueri (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Tarascan cosmovision, feeding the gods daily, especially Curicaueri, was vital because it ensured that the world would continue to function; this food was the human sacrifice. At the foot of the platform, one of the most significant pieces of evidence of this act of surrender to the gods was found, where an enormous...
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Fire and Death in the Great Platform of Tzintzuntzan, Mexico (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Just as fire and firewood were considered very important elements in the cosmovision of the Tarascan culture, so were war and sacrificial practices. Prisoners of war were sacrificed to two types of deities, the first linked to the celestial bodies and the second linked to the earth and water. Historical sources mention that...
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Implementation of Pore-Space Surface Descriptors for the Characterization of Taphonomy and Pathological Changes on Temporal Bones (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study describes the techniques developed to obtain a set of 2D/3D surface and volume descriptors from photogrammetry and tomography datasets that evaluate the pore space presented in a collection of temporal bones from Tzintzuntzan, Mexico. These methods could help to distinguish between taphonomy and pathological...
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Lidar, Architecture, and Petroglyphs: Urban Analysis of the Vapatzequa San Pablo, Tzintzuntzan (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster we will present the data derived from systematic surface prospections within one of these vapatzaquas, the neighborhood of San Pablo, Tzintzuntzan, which is one of the most important in the city, since inside it is located the Great Platform with the five yácatas, as well as another of the largest platforms of...
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Spoiler Alert: Bioarchaeological Study of Cremation Funerary Urns with an Application of Computer Tomography (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nine urns from the early Postclassic cemetery in Los Tamarindos (Tierra Caliente, Michoacán, Mexico) containing human cremains have been excavated with the support of a CT scan. Selected examples from this sample will be presented to demonstrate the analytical potential of the methodology that merges bioarchaeological...
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Traces of Integration: A Study of Early Colonial Ware by Imagenology Methods (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Tzintzuntzan, Capital of the Tarascan Empire: New Perspectives" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The capital of the Tarascan empire was located in Tzintzuntzan (Michoacán, Mexico), which reached its peak during the Late Postclassic (AD 1350–1525). At the time of contact, there was an almost unique continuous transition, showing a historical process of long duration, where different traditions converged. Among the...