ANTH 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kaminaljuyu, Teotihuacan, Talud-Tablero
12 Dec 2019
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Coe and houston chapter 7 the early classic maya. Possibly up to hundreds of people, but cities and courts vary hugely in size and were hugely hierarchially organized. City-states are autonomous but many under control of other larger ones. Sites imitated each other, access to space became more restricted over time. Also see status expressed symbolically in depictions of rulers, burials, difference in diet, on ceramics, stelae, etc. Combination of highly refined but also very violent. Leiden plaque, would have been an ornament on a kings belt, has a long count date of 320 ce, see a king trampling a captive. Difference between early and late classic are izapan elements and teotihuacan influence (in the early) Decline of teotihuacan placed around 550 ce, describe it as permeated with war symbolism. Question of where aztec god quetzalcoatl originated. See before the aztec in maya a kukulkan, and see in teotihuacan as well, but.
