The Offerings Of The Templo Mayor Of Tenochtitlan
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The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan
Author | : Leonardo López Luján |
Publsiher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826329586 |
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The spectacular findings of the historic Templo Mayor Project, which took place in the heart of Mexico City from 1978 to 1997.
Life and Death in the Templo Mayor
Author | : Eduardo Matos Moctezuma |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059173001635625 |
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The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present a concise and well-supported development of this theme.
Golden Kingdoms
Author | : Joanne Pillsbury,Timothy Potts,Kim N. Richter |
Publsiher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781606065488 |
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This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring more than three hundred works of art, many rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century. Presenting spectacular works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico, this exhibition focuses on specific places and times—crucibles of innovation—where artistic exchange, rivalry, and creativity led to the production of some of the greatest works of art known from the ancient Americas. The book and exhibition explore not only artistic practices but also the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced and circulated, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions. Golden Kingdoms creates new understandings of ancient American art through a thematic exploration of indigenous ideas of value and luxury. Central to the book is the idea of the exchange of materials and ideas across regions and across time: works of great value would often be transported over long distances, or passed down over generations, in both cases attracting new audiences and inspiring new artists. The idea of exchange is at the intellectual heart of this volume, researched and written by twenty scholars based in the United States and Latin America.
City of Sacrifice
Author | : David Carrasco |
Publsiher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807046434 |
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At an excavation of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City, amid carvings of skulls and a dismembered warrior goddess, David Carrasco stood before a container filled with the decorated bones of infants and children. It was the site of a massive human sacrifice, and for Carrasco the center of fiercely provocative questions: If ritual violence against humans was a profound necessity for the Aztecs in their capital city, is it central to the construction of social order and the authority of city states? Is civilization built on violence? In City of Sacrifice,Carrasco chronicles the fascinating story of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, investigating Aztec religious practices and demonstrating that religious violence was integral to urbanization; the city itself was a temple to the gods. That Mexico City, the largest city on earth, was built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, is a point Carrasco poignantly considers in his comparison of urban life from antiquity to modernity. Majestic in scope, City of Sacrifice illuminates not only the rich history of a major Meso american city but also the inseparability of two passionate human impulses: urbanization and religious engagement. It has much to tell us about many familiar events in our own time, from suicide bombings in Tel Aviv to rape and murder in the Balkans.
Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico
Author | : David M. Carballo |
Publsiher | : Oxford Studies in the Archaeol |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190251062 |
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This volume examines the ways in which urbanisation and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico. It provides a materially informed history of religion and an archaeology of cities that considers religion as a generative force in societal change
The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs
Author | : Deborah L. Nichols,Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199341962 |
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The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the Spanish empire and the Colonial period that shaped the modern world. Articles in the Handbook take up new research trends and methodologies and current debates. The Handbook articles are divided into seven parts. Part I, Archaeology of the Aztecs, introduces the Aztecs, as well as Aztec studies today, including the recent practice of archaeology, ethnohistory, museum studies, and conservation. The articles in Part II, Historical Change, provide a long-term view of the Aztecs starting with important predecessors, the development of Aztec city-states and imperialism, and ending with a discussion of the encounter of the Aztec and Spanish empires. Articles also discuss Aztec notions of history, writing, and time. Part III, Landscapes and Places, describes the Aztec world in terms of its geography, ecology, and demography at varying scales from households to cities. Part IV, Economic and Social Relations in the Aztec Empire, discusses the ethnic complexity of the Aztec world and social and economic relations that have been a major focus of archaeology. Articles in Part V, Aztec Provinces, Friends, and Foes, focuses on the Aztec's dynamic relations with distant provinces, and empires and groups that resisted conquest, and even allied with the Spanish to overthrow the Aztec king. This is followed by Part VI, Ritual, Belief, and Religion, which examines the different beliefs and rituals that formed Aztec religion and their worldview, as well as the material culture of religious practice. The final section of the volume, Aztecs after the Conquest, carries the Aztecs through the post-conquest period, an increasingly important area of archaeological work, and considers the place of the Aztecs in the modern world.
The Aztec Templo Mayor
Author | : Elizabeth Hill Boone |
Publsiher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0884021491 |
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The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires
Author | : Tamara L. Bray |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007-05-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780306482465 |
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This volume examines the commensal politics of early states and empires and offers a comparative perspective on how food and feasting have figured in the political calculus of archaic states in both the Old and New Worlds. It provides a cross-cultural and comparative analysis for scholars and graduate students concerned with the archaeology of complex societies, the anthropology of food and feasting, ancient statecraft, archaeological approaches to micro-political processes, and the social interpretation of prehistoric pottery.