Mesoamerican Queens, Revisited

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper builds on the author’s earlier research that documents previously unrecognized female rulers among the Aztec. Over the last 50 years, interest in elite women in other areas of Mesoamerica has grown, and the author presents the outcome of some of that research. Woman rulers from not only the Aztec area but also from the Valley of Oaxaca and the Mayan region are discussed. In addition, the author briefly relates her experiences as the only woman on a field crew doing settlement pattern work in 1968 in the Teotihuacán Valley as part of Bill Sanders’s larger Basin of Mexico project.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37993.0