Teotihuacan Influence in the Maya Area as Documented by Archaeological Fieldwork and Museum Collections

Summary

There is extensive evidence of the exchange that occurred between Teotihuacan and the Maya area and new evidence has continued to surface in recent archaeological literature and in museum collections. This paper has several main objectives, first to revisit the history of research and analysis of iconographic symbols and epigraphy within the Maya area that notes a Teotihuacan influence. Secondly, to point out that the Maya obtained Central Mexican symbols and writing not merely for their exoticness but rather for what they represented as powerful instruments used within sacred ritual activity at Teotihuacan. Finally, this investigation offers new perspectives found within museum collections on cultural and ideological exchange between Teotihuacan and the Maya.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 16706