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Does the state usher in a special stage in history? Probing the Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 321-339, August 2025.
Abstract In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow suggest that almost all modern features of social structures— cities, religious rituals, kingships, accounting practices, rational arguments, private property, and so on—date to epochs prior to the neolithic revolution.
Elias L. Khalil
wiley   +1 more source

The Ancient Maya Script of Hand Forms Embedded in Figural Art: A Decipherment of Numerals Signed by the Rulers of Altar Q1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 350-389, July 2025.
Abstract Ancient Maya texts are informationally dominated by hieroglyphic inscriptions and visually dominated by figural art with distinctly formed hands. The hands suggest iconographically embedded hand signs, which would constitute a unique modality of semantic expression and a discourse complement to hieroglyphic writing.
Rich A. Sandoval
wiley   +1 more source

(Review A) "Dancing for the Saints in the Time of COVID-19: Responses to the Lockdown in the Texcoco and Teotihuacan Regions in Central Mexico"

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021
This is the first review of the preprinted article "Dancing for the Saints in the Time of COVID-19: Responses to the Lockdown in the Texcoco and Teotihuacan Regions in Central Mexico." The review will be taken offline once the final article has appeared.
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
doaj  

Sistemas de control de mano de obra y del intercambio de bienes suntuarios en el corredor teotihuacano hacia la costa del Golfo en el Clásico

open access: yesAnales de Antropología, 2011
Teotihuacan representa una gran excepción en Mesoamérica por su tamaño y grado de planificación, su organización corporativa, la multietnicidad de su población y por ser un gran centro de acopio de bienes de otras regiones. En dicho ambiente multiétnico,
Linda R. Manzanilla
doaj   +1 more source

Advancements in radiocarbon dating: An overview of its impact on Mexican archaeology

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 67, Issue S2, Page S82-S99, July 2025.
Abstract In this article, we provide a concise historical summary tracing the evolution of radiocarbon dating techniques in Mexico and Central America. We explore the contributions of early pioneers who first employed radiocarbon dating methods, leading to the establishment of a Mexican accelerator mass spectrometry laboratory. The study highlights its
Corina Solís   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploraciones y reconstrucciones en Teotihuacan 1960-1962: intervenciones previas al “Proyecto Teotihuacán”

open access: yesFiguras Revista Académica de Investigación, 2020
Desde enero de 1960 hasta marzo de 1962, el entonces Departamento de Monumentos Prehispánicos del INAH llevó a cabo las temporadas I, II y III de exploraciones arqueológicas mayores, en las monumentales edificaciones que, por el oeste, delimitan a la ...
José Humberto Medina-González   +1 more
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The Lightning Serpent of Teotihuacan and the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent

open access: yesIndiana
In this article I sketch a portrait of a supernatural serpent that has received very little attention from the investigators of Teotihuacan: the Lightning Serpent.
Zoltán Paulinyi
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Early Colonial Diet in El Japón, Xochimilco, Mexico: Examining dietary continuity through stable isotope analysis of bone collagen and bioapatite

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 3, July 2024.
Location of the Colonial period site of El Japón (San Gregorio Atlapulco, Mexico City). Abstract Objectives Early colonial documents from central Mesoamerica detail raising and planting of European livestock and crops alongside native ones. The extent to which Indigenous people, especially of the rural commoner class, consumed newly introduced foods is
Edgar Alarcón Tinajero   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bioanthropological analysis of human remains from the archaic and classic period discovered in Puyil cave, Mexico

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 184, Issue 2, June 2024.
Geographic distribution of shared mtDNA haplotypes between. This map shows the geographic distribution of shared mtDNA haplotypes between the human remains of Puyil Cave and those reported previously from ancient and contemporary people. Additionally, in the bottom right corner are shown the skulls on the surface of Chamber 4, discovered in this cave ...
María Teresa Navarro‐Romero   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic Evidence Supports the Multiethnic Character of Teopancazco, a Neighborhood Center of Teotihuacan, Mexico (AD 200-600). [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Multiethnicity in Teopancazco, Teotihuacan, is supported by foreign individuals found in the neighborhood center as well as by the diversity observed in funerary rituals at the site.
Brenda A Álvarez-Sandoval   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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