The Art of Interconnection: Chichen Itza and the Gulf Coast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

We often talk about the connections between Chichen Itza and Tula, but these two great cities were far from alone in the ancient Mesoamerican world. In this presentation, I will explore artistic and architectural similarities between Chichen Itza and the Gulf Coast, from the iconography of ball game sacrifice to the presence of round columns carved with narrative scenes. What emerges is the possibility of multiple modes of contact between the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf Coast region, a history of mutual influence spanning centuries.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part II   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36753.0