Postclassic Communities and Colonial Reconfigurations in the Eastern Lower Papaloapan Basin, Veracruz, Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Previous investigations in the region known as the Eastern Lower Papaloapan Basin, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, have proposed the existence of a "Postclassic Paradox" in which Late Postclassic prehispanic communities identified in 16th century historic documents cannot be identified archaeologically. In this poster, I expand on this idea and propose that the Postclassic Paradox is rather a result of our partial interpretation of colonial documents together with recent and misleading changes in the names of local communities, and not a true lack of archaeological evidence. Through the analysis of maps and documents analyzed at the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, I come up with new ideas for the location of possible Postclassic communities that were immersed in the new colonial political and economic landscapes.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25529