Multiethnicity and migration at teopancazco : investigations of a teotihuacan neighborhood center / edited by Linda R. Manzanilla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manzanilla, Linda R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico--History--To 1519.

Mexico.

Teopantecuanitlan Site (Mexico).

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--San Juan Teotihuacán--History--To 1500.

Indians of Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2017.

Summary:

Like modern-day New York City, the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico was built by a flood of immigrants who created a complex and diverse urban landscape. The city benefited from the knowledge, technical expertise, and experience that foreigners brought. The neighborhoods also competed with each other in displaying the finest crafts, the rarest raw materials, and the most lavish sumptuary goods. This detailed volume looks at 116 formal burials in Teopancazco, a powerful neighborhood that controlled the distribution of foreign raw materials from Teotihuacan toward Nautla in Veracruz. Applying sophisticated bioarchaeological analyses of stable and strontium isotopes, trace elements, funerary patterns, and ancient DNA, this holistic study identifies the population's age and sex profiles, paleopathologies, paleodiet, provenance, and facial approximations. What emerges is a detailed portrait of a multiethnic group working and interacting in one of the largest urban sites in the preindustrial world.

Contents:

Teopancazco: A Multiethnic Neighborhood Center in the Metropolis of Teotihuacan / Linda R. Manzanilla

Funerary Patterns, Sex and Age Profiles, Paleopathology, and Activity Markers of the People in Teopancazco / Luis Adrián Alvarado and Linda R. Manzanilla

Dietary and Food Patterns of the Teopancazco Population / Gabriela I. Mejía Appel

Paleodiet Reconstruction Based on Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes of Teeth from Burials in Teopancazco / Isabel Casar, Pedro Morales, Edith Cienfuegos, Linda R. Manzanilla, and Francisco Otero

Geographic Origins and Migration Histories of the Teopancazco Population: Evidence from Stable Oxygen Isotopes / Pedro Morales, Isabel Casar, Edith Cienfuegos, Linda R. Manzanilla, and Francisco Otero

Migrants in Teopancazco: Evidence from Strontium Isotopic Studies / Gabriela Solís Pichardo, Peter Schaaf, Teodoro Hernández Treviño, Becket Lailson, Linda R. Manzanilla, and Peter Horn

Genetic Analysis of Teopancazco Burials: Inferences on Multiethnicity / Brenda A. Álvarez Sandoval, Linda R. Manzanilla, and Rafael Montiel

The Children of Teopancazco: Genetic Analysis and Archaeological Interpretations / Brenda A. Álvarez Sandoval, José Ramón Gallego, Linda R. Manzanilla, and Rafael Montiel

Faces of Ethnicity at Teotihuacan: Facial Approximation of Five Classic Period Skulls from Teopancazco / Lilia Escorcia, Linda R. Manzanilla, and Fabio Barba

The Multiethnic Population of Teopancazco: Final Comments / Linda R. Manzanilla.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5278-5

OCLC:

975271972