ANT200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Maico, Brevican, Teotihuacan
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Monte alb n: oaxaca valley, mexico 500 250 bce (2500 2250 bp, large population (17,000, small population for a city, neighbourhoods built around a central plaza w temple, palace, ball court, clear stylistic differences indicate separate neighbourhoods, defensive wall built around 350 250 bce (2350 2250 bp, concerns about protection, other emerging states or grps causing trouble. Swidden (slash & burn) cultivation: initial burst of nutrients from ash (summer, harvest in september, 2nd harvest in fall, recovery over winter, burn in spring, soil not nutrient heavy can only decently harvest for 3 yrs, then 10 yr break (cid:224) need to expand. Mayan pyramids: new rulers tore down & built over the temples of their, pyramids built as a tomb for one ruler, built during their, removed old iconography, due to increased ethnicities (200 yrs after, power shift from central/military to kin/lineage predecessors reign.