Classic Veracruz Tuxtlas Polychrome Ceramics

Summary

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

Tuxtlas Polychrome ceramics of south-central Veracruz, Mexico occupy a visible presence in precolumbian museum collections. Boldly rendered deities and zoomorphic figures are the focal point of bowls, plates, and vases, their images alluding to a complex supernatural world. While well represented among the corpus of Classic Veracruz artifacts, these vessels have been effectively ignored by archaeologists and art historians. This presentation attempts to rectify the gap in the material record, examining Tuxtlas Polychromes with regards to their archaeological contexts. Motifs will be considered relative to Classic Veracruz forms and iconography. The enigmatic imagery can often be viewed from multiple perspectives, providing what archaeologist Richard Burger calls "anatropic" readings. This examination is designed to lay the groundwork for future study.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

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

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Abstract Id(s): 24096