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)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Gulf Coast
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