A GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE STREET OF THE DEAD AT THE TLAJINGA DISTRICT, TEOTIHUACAN, MEXICO
| Autor: | Ma. del Carmen Gutiérrez-Castorena, Mareike Cordula Stahlschmidt, Emily McClung de Tapia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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010506 paleontology
060102 archaeology Geography Planning and Development Compound 17 06 humanities and the arts Overprinting 01 natural sciences Archaeology Paleosol Natural (archaeology) Tepetate Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Phytolith Soil horizon 0601 history and archaeology Alluvium 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Ancient Mesoamerica. 30:129-145 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1787 0956-5361 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0956536118000238 |
| Popis: | Archaeological investigations undertaken by the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacán are focused on understanding urban expansion and household economies in this southern district of the city. Our geoarchaeological research addresses similar topics through examination of relevant microstratigraphic and botanical signatures as well as those relevant to reconstructing paleoenvironment. We investigated four different contexts at Tlajinga: the southern extension of the Street of the Dead, an obsidian working area outside Compound 17:S3E1, anthropogenic and natural layers below Compound 18:S3E1, and a soil profile at the San Lorenzo river. We employed micromorphological, pollen, and phytolith analyses as well as standard soil analytics to study the various deposits in these contexts. Our analysis demonstrates artificial lowering of the tepetate for continuing the axis of the Street of the Dead, microdebitage from obsidian working outside Compound 17:S3E1, and the preservation of in situ burning activities at Compound 18:S3E1. Further, we reconstruct alluvial infilling of the Street of the Dead with pedogenetic overprinting and present further evidence on the occurrence and variability of the Black San Pablo Paleosol and its agricultural significance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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