Disentangling Puebla/Tlaxcala: Recent Advances in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Visual Culture

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Disentangling Puebla/Tlaxcala: Recent Advances in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Visual Culture" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Although prominently located in central Mexico between the Basin of Mexico, the Gulf Coast, and Oaxaca, Puebla/Tlaxcala has nevertheless been under-represented in regional syntheses. This despite the fact that archaeological research in the region has been ongoing for well over 100 years with several major projects, the ethnohistorical record is replete with numerous Colonial sources, visual culture (such as murals and polychrome ceramics) from pre-Contact sources tie into prominent pan-regional themes, and extensive ethnographic research connects living descendents with their indigenous ancestors. This session brings together scholars working at such sites as Cholula, Tlalancaleca, Cantona, Tehuacan el Viejo, and Valsequillo, as well as ethnohistorians and art historians investigating pre-Contact and early Colonial themes. The objective is explore the inter-relationships between sites and time periods while integrating them into larger regional dialogues.