... of Ancient Oaxaca . By Boos Frank H. . New York , 1966 . A. S. Barnes and Company . Illustrations. Notes. Index . Pp. 488 . $30.00 . Arqueología de Teotihuacán. La cerámica . By Séjourné Laurette . México , 1966 . Fondo de Cultura Económica . Illustrations. Figures. Notes . Pp...

... chronological perspectives on processes still in motion. Teotihuacan marked the seating of Mesoamerican power in and around the Valley of Mexico, with Mexico City being just the last in a line of heirs. In addition, by interrogating the roots of indigenous Mesoamerican cultural unity and diversity, the authors...

...Carol Damian Teotihuacan: Art from the City of the Gods . Edited by Berrin Kathleen and Pasztory Elizabeth . London : Thames and Hudson , 1994 . Illustrations. 288 pp. Paper . $24.95 . The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan . By Moctezuma Eduardo...

... to the geology, geography, and natural history of the Valley of Teotihuacán and its environs and will provide important basic data for future scholars investigating the city’s rise and fall. The five papers in this volume, all of them in Spanish, were presented in the session on anthropogeography...

... here by popular struggles to retain objects in Teotihuacán, Tepoztlán, and Tetlama, communities that battled with the inspector of monuments Leopoldo Batres, the principal state official in charge of gathering antiquities. 20 Bonfil, “Nuestro patrimonio cultural,” 37–38. 19 Arjun Appadurai...

... at Teotihuacán and subsequent Toltec states was a form of Nahuatl. Such was the projection of this imperial city that leaders dressed in Teotihuacán style were portrayed at the classic Maya cities of Tikal in A.D. 378 and Copán in A.D. 426. Thus, although the Mexica venerated the Toltecs as their cultural...

... of the peoples who produced them. He often questions what can be known of such things of another time and place. Jongsoo Lee treats Teotihuacan's true relationship to Tetzcoco and Alva Ixtlilxochitl's true relationship to Teotihuacan. He finds that our famous historian disingenuously made selective use of his...

... provides a data base for many fascinating questions. Blanton asks one of these: Why was the developmental history of Monte Albán so different from that of its great rival, Teotihuacan? I would ask another: Why was Monte Albán abandoned at about the same time as Teotihuacan? Blanton’s answer...

.... Picking up the afterlife of objects, Leonardo López Luján's biography of monuments in “Life after Death in Teotihuacan: The Moon Plaza's Monoliths in Colonial and Modern Mexico” and Ellen Hoobler's “An ‘Artistic Discovery’ of Antiquity: Alfonso Caso, the Archaeologist as Curator at the New York World's...

... World archaeology alike. Equally significant are the community-level investigations of some of Mesoamerica’s preeminent regional centers. They include the early Olmec center at San Lorenzo (chap. 5), the Central Mexican capitals of Teotihuacán (chap. 7) and Tula (chap. 9), and the great lowland Maya...

... of Teotihuacan Valley, which were later expanded to include other parts of the Valley of Mexico. The present volume is the product of a seminar held in 1972 at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to assess the findings of these investigations since the 1960s. The findings are indeed...

..., and Monte Albán, Oaxaca. The Palacio del Quetzalpapálotl is located at the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacán in the Valley of Mexico. It was uncovered and reconstructed between 1962 and 1964 as a part of the Teotihuacán Project of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia which has as its...

... area, and the treatment reverts from this to the Chichimec and Toltec periods, to the Theocratic cultures (principally Teotihuacán, Zapotec, and Totonac), and thence to the Archaic cultures of the Valley of Mexico, the west, and the Olmec regions. It concludes with an account of relations between...

... treatise on the subject of Toltec history. He is thorough in his coverage, and exhausts both the available documentary and archaeological sources. Cultural settings, such as late Teotihuacan, the “epiclassic” Gulf Coast and Yucatan, the classic and postclassic northern margins, and the postclassic Puebla...

... style, are frequently accompanied by appealing examples from present-day popular culture and witty comments. Whittaker traces the origins of this writing system to the Classic-period metropolis of Teotihuacan. This challenging hypothesis is accompanied by another: that the language of Teotihuacan's...

... and Susan D. Gillespie provide a modest and judicious analysis of polity, landscape, and art at Chalcatzingo. Their interpretations are more firmly grounded than most of the iconographic analyses in this book. William L. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Barbara W. Fash link Teotihuacan to Classic Maya cities...

... well-known and previously unexplored contexts. A shining example is the role of Teotihuacan in Early Classic Mesoamerica. Arguments for autochthonous development and independence from Teotihuacan are part of D. Bryan Schaeffer's interpretations of tripod vessels in the Maya area (chapter 5), Charles...

... of the Olmec civilization, based not on recent radiocarbon dates, but on two Long-Count inscriptions which almost certainly postdate that culture. The list of murals and map of Teotihuacán are also out of date, for they exclude the excavations of the last two decades by Séjourné and Millon. Only Soustelle’s...

... projects assess the importance of ideological factors for understanding the Olmecs (David C. Grove and Susan D. Gillespie), Teotihuacan (George L. Cowgill), and the Maya (David A. Freidel, Arthur A. Demarest) in Mesoamerica; Tiwanaku (Alan L. Kolata), the Santa Valley (David J. Wilson), and the Incas...

... (Teotihuacán, Cholula, Xochicalco, Chichen Itzá, and Tula) all in the Toltec tradition of Tollan. Chapter 4 retells the return of Quetzalcoatl as the story of the failure of Aztec polity, or the “irony of empire.” Carrasco writes to reach anthropologists, historians of religions, and urban geographers...