Exploring Biological Sex Inequality through Mortuary Practices at Teotihuacan: A Machine Learning Approach

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Individualities have been difficult to identify in Classic Period Teotihuacan, as this multiethnic urban culture presents itself as a faceless society where inequality must be addressed with new perspectives and methodologies. In this poster, we explore whether this inequality is perceptible through biological sex differentiation in mortuary evidence, e.g., burials and sacrifices, at Teotihuacan. We analyze this hypothesis through a machine learning approach. The results of our research indicate that graves do not present differential patterns by biological sex. However, biological sex was an important factor in the sacrificial burials of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent. These results offer a deeper insight into social inequality and individual roles at Teotihuacan, highlighting the potential of computer science to understand human interactions in a complex social network of plural identities underrated in the archaeological record.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39299.0