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2008, Flowing through Time: Exploring Archaeology through Humans and their Aquatic Environment
The purpose of this paper is to build on Reyes García’s excellent ethnohistorical study with archaeological and art historical evidence, in order to more fully explore the concept of the ‘water-mountain.’ In doing so, I will argue that Cholula’s Great Pyramid may have been the primordial model of the ‘water-mountain,’ pre-dating other possible candidates. Furthermore, I will suggest that the altepetl concept as practiced in Cholula may provide some hints as to why the city sustained such longevity, especially in comparison to other Mesoamerican polities that experienced periodic rise and decline.
Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing Social Identity
Building the Tlachihualtepetl: The Social and Ideological Foundations of the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico2013 •
Ancient Mesoamerica
Reinterpreting the Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico1996 •
The Great Pyramid of Cholula is both the largest and oldest continuously occupied building in Mesoamerica. Initial occupation of the ceremonial precinct began in the Late Formative period, and the first building stage of the pyramid dates to the Terminal Formative. The Great Pyramid was built in four major construction stages and at least nine minor modifications. Early stages shared stylistic similarities with Teotihuacan, but toward the end of its construction history external contacts shifted to the Gulf Coast, particularly El Tajin, and probably relate to occupation by ethnic Olmeca-Xicallanca. The fourth and final stage was contemporary with extensive construction on the south side at the Patio of the Altars, and dates to the Early Postclassic period. This period ended, however, with the partial abandonment of the pyramid when ethnic Tolteca-Chichimeca constructed a ceremonial center around their “new” Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl. The Great Pyramid continued as an important shrine ...
Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture
Pyramids, Mountains, and Sight Lines: The Diachronic Evolution of Teotihuacan’s Monumental Structures2023 •
Teotihuacan’s distinctive urban grid has long attracted scholarly investigation. This essay examines several aspects of how the monumental core and its relationship to surrounding mountains changed over time. Specifically, it discusses how two of the most notable geomantic alignments at Teotihuacan—that of the Moon Pyramid with Cerro Gordo and that of the Sun Pyramid with Cerro Patlachique—were gradually refined over the centuries. Marvin Trachtenberg’s model for premodern design processes, called Building-in-Time, with its emphasis on continual redesign, concatenation, and retrosynthesis, serves as analytical framework. First, the essay argues that the location of the front stair of the Moon Pyramid remained fixed in successive reconstructions of the building because it frames a particular visual relationship between the Sun Pyramid and Cerro Patlachique behind it. Second, it presents a north-south alignment between the summits of the Moon and Sun Pyramids that developed as the Moon Pyramid was enlarged. Finally, it considers how the structures of the Moon Plaza helped eclipse the view of Cerro Gordo during the final phases of the Moon Pyramid’s history. These sight lines shaped the viewers’ embodied experience in ways that reinforced social hierarchies, reminding us that monumental architecture in Teotihuacan’s center not only unified its subjects but also reified distinctions among them.
Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building: theoretical and methodological approaches to the built environment, edited by A. Brysbaert, V. Klinkenberg, A. Gutiérrez Garcia-M. and I. Vikatou. Sidestone Press: Leiden.
Rethinking monumentality in Teotihuacan, Mexico2018 •
Latin American Antiquity
When was the Sun Pyramid Built? Maintaining the Status Quo at Teotihuacan, Mexico2015 •
Archaeological research since 2004 in the humid tropical coastal lowlands along the Gulf of Mexico has revealed that earth was successfully used as building material for monumental architecture in an extremely adverse environment of heavy summer rainfalls and winter hurricanes. At the site of La Joya, one of the many earthen sites of Central and Southern Veracruz, pyramids, palaces, and ball courts of a size equalling or surpassing contemporaneous stone constructions, were erected and modified during the first millennium AD. For the first time in Mexican research, the combined efforts of archaeologists, architects, restorers, chemists, geologists, and biologists permit understanding the techniques that made these constructions possible in the tropical environment. Our paper focuses on a new reconstruction of the building sequence of the East Palace Annex at La Joya, to emphasize the quality of the architecture and the importance of this underrated heritage. We address aspects of construction technique and architectural layout, pointing out the original strategies developed by the ancient builders.
Latin American Antiquity
Ucanal Stela 29 and the Cosmopolitanism of Terminal Classic Maya Stone Monuments2020 •
The Terminal Classic period (ca. AD 800-1000) in the Southern Maya Lowlands witnessed a precipitous decline in the erection of carved stone monuments, a decline that corresponds to shifts in political ideologies and the disappearance of many prominent royal dynasties. Although Southern Lowland sites are often considered peripheral to the events and innovations occurring elsewhere in Mesoamerica during this time, a recently discovered stela, Stela 29, at the site of Ucanal in Peten, Guatemala, underscores the active role of the site in broader political movements in the ninth century. Our icono-graphic, textual, and stylistic analysis of this stela, in concert with other Terminal Classic monuments from the site, reveals a vernacular cosmopolitan aesthetic whereby local Classic Maya styles were infused with images and elements that referenced connections with peoples from northern Yucatan, the Gulf Coast, and Central Mexico. El período Clásico Terminal (ca. 800-1000 dC) en las tierras bajas mayas del sur experimento un descenso precipitado en la construcción de monumentos de piedra tallada, un descenso que corresponde a cambios en las ideologías políticas y el cese de muchas dinastías reales prominentes. Aunque los sitios de las tierras bajas del sur a menudo se consideran periféricos a los eventos e innovaciones que ocurren en otras partes de Mesoamérica durante este tiempo, una estela recientemente descu-bierta, la Estela 29, del sitio de Ucanal en Petén, Guatemala, subraya el papel activo del sitio en los movimientos políticos más amplios en el siglo noveno. Nuestro análisis iconográfico, textual y estilístico de esta estela, en concierto con otros mon-umentos del Clásico Terminal del sitio, revela una estética cosmopolita vernácula en la que los estilos Mayas Clásicos locales se infunden con imágenes y elementos que hacen referencia a conexiones con gente del norte de Yucatán, de la costa del Golfo y del Centro de México.
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Saludes, A. (coord.), Tárraco reflejo de Roma
De cuando Tárraco dejó de ser una ciudad romana (2022)2022 •
КОГНИТИВНЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ЯЗЫКА. Вып. 32, 2018. Общероссийская общественная организация "Российская ассоциация лингвистов-когнитологов" (Тамбов). С. 36-47.
ПЕРЕВОД И ТРАНСФЕР КАК ДВЕ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЕ, КУЛЬТУРОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ И КОГНИТИВНЫЕ ПРОЦЕДУРЫ2018 •
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6 Formas en que los Académicos Pueden Apoyarse entre Sí - InterVarsity Press2024 •
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Entrevista com Amilton Pelegrino de Mattos, professor da Licenciatura Indígena da Universidade Federal do Acre, Campus Floresta2023 •
International Journal of Literary Linguistics
David Bellos’ Indirect Translation of Ismail Kadare’s The File on H: A Contextual Analysis2019 •
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Ipari együttműködés – Bosch - ME, ATI közös járműipari kutatások – a FIEK projekt keretében2020 •
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Science of Human Action
Construcción de conocimiento científico escolar: una reflexión desde la didáctica sobre enseñanza de las ciencias de la gestión y los estudios organizacionales2018 •
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Physical Review B
Role of quantum ion dynamics in the melting of lithium2016 •
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