Ruins in the Daily Life of San Antonio La Baeza from the Prehispanic Past to the Modern Day

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Vibrancy of Ruins: Ruination Studies in Ancient Mesoamerica" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

What role do ruins play in the lives of descendant peoples? Surrounding the small mountain pueblo of San Antonio La Baeza are numerous ruins dating to different time periods. For example, below the modern pueblo are large, deep rockshelters that have been occupied from the Late Formative up until today and are covered in rock paintings. Dispersed across the ridgeline of the nearby Cerro San Antonio lies the monumental archaeological site of prehispanic La Baeza. Directly above the pueblo is Cerro El Gallo, another hill with archaeological features whose name is based on mythic stories. The pueblo possesses eighteenth-century colonial documents for purchase of the land where the modern settlement lies. Finally, the oldest pueblo residents were born and baptized in the nearby Pueblo Viejo. Past and present peoples live among these remnants of their ancestors and interact with them on a daily basis. This paper investigates the role of ruins in the constitution of the San Antonio La Baeza community from the Late Formative period to the modern day.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Vibrancy of Ruins: Ruination Studies in Ancient Mesoamerica   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35810.0