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2001
"As the center for the religious cult of Quetzalcoatl, Cholula played a prominent role in shaping events of central Mexico's Postclassic period. Yet confusion over historical events in Cholula itself have limited its place in recent archaeological considerations of Mesoamerica. Since ceramic sequences are the backbone of archaeological chronologies, this confusion ultimately relates to problems in previous attempts to order archaeological time with ceramics. This book provides an innovative new classification of Cholula ceramics, based on artifact assemblages from primary depositional contexts recovered from the UA-1 excavation. A detailed and well-illustrated description of ceramic types is provided to construct a new classification system. These types are then seriated using collections from house floors and trash middens to suggest a new sequence spanning the Tlachihualtepetl (700-1200 CE) and Cholollan (1200-1550 CE) periods. The polychrome ceramics of Cholula have been described as among the most beautiful of Mesoamerica, employing vibrant colors to represent complex religious iconography of the Mixteca-Puebla stylistic tradition. By defining type and subtype variations in the polychrome ceramics, a foundation is created for a refined chronology as well as for recognizing intra-societal variability."
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Chronological trends in the use of Valley of Oaxaca ceramics and ceramic styles at Cerro Jazmín, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca2017 •
Veronica Perez Rodriguez, Antonio Martínez, Leah Minc, Laura R. Stiver Walsh, Mariana Navarro
This paper presents data on Late Formative to Terminal Formative (300 BCE–300 CE) ceramic assemblages that suggest a change in the use of Valley of Oaxaca ceramics and ceramic styles at Cerro Jazmín, Oaxaca, Mexico. We describe the characteristics of 29 dated ceramic assemblages from civic-ceremonial and residential contexts. We present INAA results and chronological trends in the ceramic assemblages that point to a decrease in the use of Valley of Oaxaca gray-ware serving vessels from the Late to Terminal Formative and a significant increase in the use of two types of locally-made serving vessels, one that was stylistically similar to crema vessels from the Valley of Oaxaca and another that was stylistically distinct and widespread in the Mixteca Alta, but rare in the Za-potec region. These serving vessels would have featured prominently in domestic and public food-consumption events. We interpret this shift as evidence of Cerro Jazmín's political and cultural independence, centuries after it was first established. Resumen: En este artículo se presentan datos de colecciones cerámicas del Formativo tardío y terminal (300 a.C.– 300 d.C.) del sitio mixteco llamado Cerro Jazmín, en Oaxaca, México. A través de la descripción de 29 colecciones cerámicas asociadas a fechas de radiocarbono, se demuestra que hubo un cambio cronológico notable en el uso de cerámicas y estilos cerámicos procedentes del Valle de Oaxaca. El artículo describe las características de las 29 coleccionees cerámicas provenientes de contextos residenciales y cívico-ceremoniales además de presentar los resultados de un análisis por activación neutrónica de una muestra de los materiales. Los cambios cronológicos apuntan a una disminución en el uso de cerámicas de pasta gris provenientes del Valle de Oaxaca del Formativo tardío al terminal. Otro cambio fue el incremento significativo en el uso de dos tipos cerámicos hechos en la re-gión mixteca, uno que producía vasijas estilísticamente similares a las cerámicas cremas del Valle de Oaxaca y otro que seguía un estilo propio de la Mixteca Alta y que era menos frecuente en la región zapoteca. Arguímos que estos tipos cerámicos de vasijas de servicio hubieran sido importantes en actos de consumo de alimentos en el ámbito doméstico y en eventos públicos y rituales. Interpretamos este cambio cerámico como un reflejo de la creciente independencia política y cultural de Cerro Jazmín siglos después de su fundación.
Americae European Journal of Americanist Archaeology
Writing and ritual: the transformation to Mixteca-Puebla ceramics of CholulaLa cerámica estilo códice es considerada una de las manifestaciones del llamado estilo Mixteca-Puebla, un sistema gráfico que tuvo su desarrollo en el Centro de México durante los últimos siglos antes de la Invasión española. Esta cerámica fue particularmente frecuente en Cholula, un centro sagrado y de peregrinación de la época. Aun cuando el sitio presenta una larga tradición de polícromos pintados, para la época Tardía (1250-1521), la manufactura de polícromos cambió al incorporar un amplio repertorio de formas, con mejor calidad, y pintadas con decoración más compleja. En este artículo, proponemos que estas transformaciones en cerámica polícroma se relacionan con el desarrollo de escritura y nuevas formas de prácticas rituales en Cholula. Buscamos principios operativos en las decoraciones de polícromos, similares a los que se encuentran en códices, tomando el modelo desarrollado por Mikulska (2015). Usamos también las nociones in tlilli in tlapalli y icuiloa para explicar esta forma particular de escritura-pintura y sugerimos que los creadores de estas vasijas poseían habilidades especiales que los hacían pertenecer a un grupo selecto de intelectuales o tlacuilos dentro de la sociedad cholulteca. Aquí, las características de esta transición serán descritas al comparar la forma, manufactura y decoración de polícromos de Cholula de los periodos Medio (1150-1350) y Tardío (1350-1550). Codex-style ceramics are considered to be manifestations of the so-called Mixteca-Puebla style, a graphic system that developed in central Mexico in the last centuries before the Spanish Invasion. These ceramics were particularly frequent in Cholula, an important holy city and pilgrimage center. Although this site had a long tradition of painted vessels, by the Late Postclassic (AD 1250-1521), the polychrome manufacture changed; polychromes incorporated a larger repertoire of vessel shapes, they were made with higher quality, and they were painted with more complex decoration. In this paper, we propose that these transformations in polychrome pottery relate to the development of writing and new forms of ritual practices in Cholula. We looked for operative principles in the decoration of polychromes, similar to those found in codices, taking the model developed by Mikulska (2015). We also used the Nahuatl notions of in tlilli in tlapalli and icuiloa to explain this particular form of writing-painting and suggest that the manufacturers of these vessels had special skills which made them part of a selected group of intellectuals or tlacuilos in Cholulan society. Here, the features of this transition will be described by comparing the shape, manufacture, and decoration of Middle (AD 1150-1350) and Late Postclassic (AD 1350-1550) polychromes of Cholula.
Domestic Ceramic Production and Spatial Organization. A Mexican Case Study in Ethnoar
Review of: Domestic Ceramic Production and Spatial Organization. A Mexican Case Study in Ethnoarchaeology by Philip J. Arnold III1993 •
Latin American Antiquity
Polychrome Pottery Economics and Ritual Life in Postclassic Oaxaca, Mexico2015 •
Tututepec was a regional capital that dominated much of southern Oaxaca, Mexico, during the Late Postclassic period (A.D. 1100-1522). This article synthesizes the results of compositional (neutron activation and petrography), stylistic, and iconographic analyses of pottery from commoner household excavations at Tututepec to address questions concerning ceramic production and distribution and also to shed light on aspects of political economy and domestic ritual at the capital. The study focuses primarily on Mixteca-Puebla polychromes, painted serving vessels bearing complex decorative motifs. Our compositional analyses, interpreted in light of the bedrock geology of the region, indicate that commoners obtained at least six to ten distinct varieties of pottery made from raw materials available locally within greater Tututepec. We argue that households probably acquired pottery through a central marketplace at the capital. In addition, our study demonstrates that commoners had regular...
After Monte Albán: Transformation and negotiation in Oaxaca, Mexico
Advances in defining the Classic-Postclassic portion of the Valley of Oaxaca ceramic chronology: Occurrence and phyletic seriation2008 •
Ancient Mesoamerica
CERAMIC ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY IN HUÁNCITO, MICHOACÁN, MEXICO2018 •
This study deals with pottery production in Huáncito, a Tarascan or Purepecha community in Michoacán, Mexico. The information I have obtained by direct observation during a quarter-century of ethnoarchaeological fieldwork in this town allows me to generate hypotheses to aid in the interpretation of the archaeological record. The main goal of this study is to assist in the interpretation of the material record of ceramic production by means of ethnographic analogy. The observations conducted over a long period of time have given me an invaluable diachronic perspective for understanding many aspects of social change and cultural continuity, including patterns of ceramic manufacture, use, and discard, as well as the use of domestic space and the archaeological visibility of potting activities in the context of the households.
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