ANTH 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kaminaljuyu, Hematite, Theodor W. Adorno
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Teotihuacan, valley of mexico - place where the gods lived (meaning in aztec) Aztec perspective: no one lived there, but full of large mounds and buildings, aztec figured that gods must"ve lived there. Our perspective: don"t know what language they spoke, what they called their city, no system of writing but had logographs. Ex: stick figure on door = men"s bathroom. Con: don"t know how to pronounce it, doesn"t indicate meaning (stick figure isn"t sitting on toilet) Teotihuacan controlled production/exportation of pachuca obsidian: surrounded by many other active volcanoes . ". soils = rich, allow for large population, access to basalt and greenstone, leopoldo batres, 1910. Mexican man in charge of cleaning teo up for mexican world. Didn"t have a lot of time, so blew up top of pyramid and rebuilt it how he wanted. Used obsidian hydration to discover growth of city over time. Want to find out finer details of society.
