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The field data and archaeological analysis of the first controlled excavations of the vast ""City of the Gods"" in central Mexico. In 1932, the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden sent an archaeological expedition to Mexico under the direction of Sigvald Linné to determine the full extent of this ancient Teotihuacan occupation and to collect exhibit-quality artifacts. Of an estimated 2000-plus residential compounds at Teotihuacan, only 20 apartmentlike structures were excavated at the time. Yet Linné's work revealed residential patterns that have been confirmed later in ot

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Teotihuacan was one of the earliest and more populous preColumbian cities, and the Feathered Serpent was its vital monument, erected circa 200 AD. This work explores the religious meanings and political implications of the pyramid with meticulous and thorough analyses of substantially new excavation data. Challenging the traditional view of the city as a legendary, sacred, or anonymously-governed centre, the book provides significant new insights on the Teotihuacan polity and society. It provides interpretations on the pyramid's location, architecture, sculptures, iconography, mass sacrificial graves and rich symbolic offerings, and concludes that the pyramid commemorated the accession of rulers who were inscribed to govern with military force on behalf of the gods. This archaeological examination of the monument shows it to be the physical manifestation of state ideologies such as the symbolism of human sacrifice, militarism, and individual-centred divine authority, ideologies which were later diffused among other Mesoamerican urban centres.

Indians of Mexico --- Human sacrifice --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Sacrifice, Human --- Sacrifice --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Politics and government. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Antiquities. --- Quetzalcoatl --- Ehecatl Quetzalcoatl --- Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl --- Ce Ácatl --- Feathered Serpent --- Plumed Serpent --- Quezacotl --- Kukulcan --- Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico) --- San Juan Teotihuacán (Mexico) --- Mexico --- Antiquities --- Quetzalcoatl (Aztec deity) --- Ritual murder --- Social Sciences --- Archeology --- Quetzalcoatl (Mesoamerican deity) --- Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico) --- San Juan Teotihuacan (Mexico)

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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.

Mexico --- Teopantecuanitlan Site (Mexico) --- Tlalcozotitlan Site (Mexico) --- History --- Antiquities --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Migration, Internal --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Restes humains (Archéologie) --- Migrations intérieures --- Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico) --- Mexique --- Teotihuacán (Mexique : Site archéologique) --- Population --- Indians of Mexico --- Indians of Mexico. --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Industries --- To 1519