Understanding Food Production in Teotihuacan: New Approaches

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean Cities: Old Debates, New Perspectives" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Teotihuacan was one of the largest and most prominent ancient cities in Mesoamerica during the Classic period (150-600 CE). The city housed an estimated population of 100,000 people at its height, all in need of food, shelter, and basic necessities. Spaces dedicated to the production and consumption of foodstuffs in the city's different districts have been difficult to identify through excavation and remote sensing. New studies in different apartment compounds and the technologies available today might reveal valuable information about food production practices and subsistence strategies. This, in turn, allows us to start placing these practices in the living spaces to understand how they were inserted into the quotidian lives of the city’s inhabitants. In this paper, we apply a variety of analyses (chemical residue, GIS, petrography, and spatial distribution) on ceramic and grinding stone tools to conceptualize food production in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Ancient Mesoamerican and Andean Cities: Old Debates, New Perspectives   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39833.0