Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions

Part of the Cosmology in the New World project

Author(s): Ben Nelson; Stephen Lekson; Ivan Sprajc; Kenneth Sassaman

Year: 2010

Summary

In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.

Cite this Record

Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions. Ben Nelson, Stephen Lekson, Ivan Sprajc, Kenneth Sassaman. 2010 ( tDAR id: 4792) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8513X8P

Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Aztec • Chacoan • Classic Maya • Hopewell • Mississippian

Site Name
Alta Vista • Aztec Ruins • Cahokia • Casas Grandes • Chaco Canyon • Chimney Rock • La Quemada • Paquime • Poverty Point • Pueblo Alto • Pueblo Bonito • Teotihuacan • Yellow Jacket

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
Architecture • ballcourts • biwall structure • built space • calendar • Chetro Ketl • complex societies • Cremation • Earth Diver • earthen monumental architecture • elite residence • evolution • figurines • Great House • horned serpent • house form • kiva • Landscape • Macacoatl • Pit House • Platform Mound • political ideology • public architecture • ritual architecture • roads • Social Complexity • solstice • sun • triwall structure • Venus Show More

Geographic Keywords
American Southeast • American Southwest • Anasazi • Hohokam • Mogollon • Northern Mexico • Southern Maya Lowlands

Temporal Keywords
Classic • Colonial Period • Epiclassic • Middle Woodland • Mississippian • Pioneer Period • Sedentary Period

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