Interdisciplinary Investigations in Teotihuacan’s Tlajinga District: Disentangling Public and Private Uses of Space

Summary

This is an abstract from the "2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Since the project’s beginnings in 2012, Luis Barba has been a codirector of the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT), helping to bring an interdisciplinary research program to studying neighborhood organization and domestic life on the southern periphery of this early Mexican metropolis. After first investigating apartment compounds and the southern extension of the Street of the Dead, the project has recently focused on understanding the construction history and uses of elevated platform complexes in Tlajinga’s southern neighborhood center. Compared with the apartment compounds of the district, these complexes were more elaborately made and decorated. Their larger courtyards and patios served some ceremonial functions but the complexes may have also served as residences for intermediate elites. Elucidating the nature of more public versus more private activities in the complexes requires interdisciplinary research combining excavation and artifact analysis with geophysical prospection and floor and artifact chemistry.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• 2024 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Luis Barba   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37955.0