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The Art of Assemblage at La Venta
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 832-857, September 2022., 2022 How might the meaning of monumental sculpture be ephemeral? At La Venta, objects from greenstone figurines to massive basalt sculptures were recycled, reworked, and moved around the landscape, their new configurations and associations creating new kinds of meaning and enabling new kinds of ritual interaction.
Claudia Brittenham
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 845-855, July/August 2022., 2022 Abstract Previous research has demonstrated significant age‐ and sex‐related differences in bone loss in European populations. This study utilizes metacarpal radiogrammetry to analyze cortical bone thickness and bone loss for a sample of indigenous individuals (n = 120) from the Hospital Real San José de los Naturales (HSJN) skeletal collection in ...
Julie K. Wesp +1 more
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 308-341, April 2022., 2022 In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Pandemics: past, present, future
APMIS, Volume 129, Issue 7, Page 352-371, July 2021., 2021 The major epidemic and pandemic diseases that have bothered humans since the Neolithic Age and Bronze Age are surveyed. Many of these pandemics are zoonotic infections, and the mathematical modeling of such infections is illustrated. Plague, cholera, syphilis, influenza, SARS, MERS, COVID‐19, and new potential epidemic and pandemic infections and their
Niels Høiby
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En torno a la población de México-Tenochtitlan en 1519
, 2022 Este artigo tem como objetivo contribuir ao estudo do número aproximado de habitantes do México-Tenochtitlan em 1519. O trabalho começa com uma breve introdução em que se constatam as dificuldades de reconstrução da população de Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco ...
Jiménez Martínez, Eloy +1 more
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La hegemonía tepaneca a través del Códice Telleriano-Remensis
Revista de Indias, 2017 Examinamos el Códice Telleriano-Remensis desde una perspectiva política centrada en el período de hegemonía tepaneca, que se relaciona con los tres primeros gobernantes de Tenochtitlan, así como de Tlatelolco.
Carlos Santamarina Novillo
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El marco antillano como antecedente a la conquista de México-Tenochtitlan, 1492-1521
Ciencia y Sociedad, 2022 La región del Caribe insular tiene un papel estratégico en la expansión de la Corona, con el encuentro de los europeos con las islas de esta región en 1492, la zona desarrolló importancia para la exploración y el descubrimiento de más lugares para ...
Enrique Gómez Velázquez
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Investigation of the Aztec Law and Its Basic Problems [PDF]
Societas et Iurisprudentia, 2015 The term “Aztecs” is being mostly used as a collective name of the inhabitants of three in the Valley of Mexico (in Central Mexico) situated allied prehispanic city-states Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan. Although in recent decades various aspects of
Peter Vyšný
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Aztecs Are Not Indigenous: Anthropology and the Politics of Indigeneity
Annals of Anthropological Practice, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 173-179, November 2020., 2020 Abstract To write about Indigeneity means already being deeply enmeshed in identity politics. The much researched rural south of Mexico City is a case in point. Anthropologists have described the Nahuatl speakers of Milpa Alta as “heirs of the Aztecs,” and knowledge of Nahuatl and folklore has become key to maintaining municipal land rights in the ...
Catherine Whittaker
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As razões da conquista de Tenochtitlán (1519-1521) contidas na narrativa de Hernan Cortez
Revista Thema, 2018 Este artigo faz um estudo da trajetória de Hernan Cortez, de 1519 até a conquista de Tenochtitlán, em 1521, e procura responder: de acordo com as representações contidas cartas de Cortez, quais razões levaram a civilização asteca a ser conquistada pelo ...
Alexandra Ferreira Martins Ribeiro +3 more
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