The Place of Maguey at El Tajín and in North-Central Veracruz during the Classic Period

Author(s): Rex Koontz

Year: 2024

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Maize and Cacao: Reflections on Visual and Textual Representation and Archaeological Evidence of Other Plants in Precolumbian Mesoamerica" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The presence of maguey in key iconographic programs at the major Classic Veracruz site of El Tajín has been explained largely through a hypothetical pulque cult at the site. This presentation will both extend and debate this interpretation of maguey iconography by exploring the locative nature of the maguey motif in a regional context.

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The Place of Maguey at El Tajín and in North-Central Veracruz during the Classic Period. Rex Koontz. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 497482)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -98.987; min lat: 17.77 ; max long: -86.858; max lat: 25.839 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 38026.0