Teotihuacan and post-Teotihuacan Writing in the Central Highlands as seen from NW Oaxaca and Southern Puebla

Summary

The Ñuiñe script from NW Oaxaca and Southern Puebla was an eclectic writing tradition that spanned the 5th through the 9th centuries A.D. Its users shared scribal practices with Zapotec, Teotihuacan, and post-Teotihuacan Highland urban centers, deploying them in novel ways. In this paper the script is used as a proxy to ascertain its shared features with Zapotec and Teotihuacan writing, as well as the extent to which Central Highland polities that thrived politically and economically after the balkanization of Teotihuacan, related to it. In doing so, several societal implications of writing practices are highlighted to better understand the dynamic stage of ancient Mesoamerican history that straddles the political demise of Teotihuacan.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Reconsidering the "Epic" in the Epiclassic Period of Mesoamerica Part 1: Regional Interactions

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