Domestic Life and Ceramic Consumption in Tlajinga, Teotihuacan

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.

Tlajinga is the southernmost district of Teotihuacan, a cosmopolitan city that thrived in Central Mexico during the Classic period. Previous research done in this neighborhood includes surface collection associated with the Teotihuacan Mapping Project and the excavation of one compound, designated 33:S3W1 during the 1970s. Recent investigations carried out by the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT) have yielded new data concerning the ceramic chronology and domestic lifeways in apartment compounds. Two compounds (17:S3E1 and 18:S3E1) were explored beginning in 2012, and two platforms that formed part of a barrio center were excavated in 2019. The analysis of ceramics at the household level provides different social insights into provenience, trade and exchange networks, technological changes, consumption patterns, and larger-scale sociocultural preferences. The typological and microscopic ceramic analyses generate diverse lines of evidence that aid our understanding of ceramic consumption in Tlajinga with implications for refining the chronology of the city and for its broader impact and distribution over centuries of occupation.

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): 32256