Los Horcones and Teotihuacan: Agency, Art, and Interaction

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Artistic representations are often the most salient indices of interaction between Teotihuacan and other communities throughout Mesoamerica. Interpretation of this artistic evidence, however, is complicated and often quite contested in the archaeological literature. In this paper, we would like to explore further the themes of art and interaction, taking into account the agency of artists who were making decisions within this context of interaction about how to negotiate new artistic languages within a framework of state-sponsored art and in smaller-scale representations often used for domestic settings. The site of Los Horcones, Chiapas, will serve as a starting point for this discussion that will also include examples from other regions where artistic evidence of contacts with Teotihuacan have been identified.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis

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Abstract Id(s): 32451