Reinventing the Early Postclassic of Cholula: Results from the UA-1 Household Compounds

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The culture history of Cholula (Puebla, Mexico) has been a roller coaster as different scholars with different paradigms have radically altered direction over the past 100 years. Consequently, when I got onboard the consensus was that Cholula had been abandoned at the end of the Classic period, in the same way as Teotihuacan, only to be reoccupied in the Late Postclassic. A field school excavation from the campus of the University of the Americas, designated UA-1, resulted in contextual data to challenge that cultural sequence. Prompted by my professor, Mickey Lind, I undertook the analysis of two household compounds that offered abundant archaeological materials dating to the Early and Middle Postclassic periods, ca. 900 to 1400 CE. This paper will outline the UA-1 households with emphasis on the ceramic assemblages. Among the conclusions are considerations of ethnic identities as well as the violent end of the Early Postclassic occupation. Interestingly, polychrome serving wares changed between the Early and Middle Postclassic, yet utilitarian wares remained the same, suggesting possible distinctions between public and private consumption practices.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Cholula to Chachoapan: Celebrating the Career of Michael Lind

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Abstract Id(s): 32840