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Immigration and the Ancient City of Teotihuacan in Mexico: a Study Using Strontium Isotope Ratios in Human Bone and Teeth
Abstract Teotihuacan, in highland Mexico, is the earliest and largest prehispanic city in the New World, occupied primarily between ad  1 and ad  650. There are many distinctive areas within the city…
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Corporate Groups and Domestic Activities at Teotihuacan
  • L. Manzanilla
  • Environmental Science
    Latin American Antiquity
  • 1 September 1996
This article compares domestic subsistence, craft production, and ritual at several excavated apartment compounds in Teotihuacan, Mexico. A new methodological approach for studying activity areas was…
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The Study of Activities in Classic Households: Two Case Studies from Coba and Teotihuacan
Abstract Mesoamerican household sites were often deserted gradually, leaving very little de facto refuse for analysis. Starting with archaeological and paleobiological distribution patterns, this…
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Sex Determination in Highly Fragmented Human DNA by High-Resolution Melting (HRM) Analysis
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This paper proposes a new method to identify sex, based on real-time PCR amplification of small fragments of the third exon within the amelogenin gene covering a 3-bp deletion on the AMELX-allele, followed by a High Resolution Melting analysis (HRM).
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Migrants in Teopancazco: Evidence from strontium isotopic studies
PROVENANCE OF THE LIMESTONE USED IN TEOTIHUACAN (MEXICO): A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH*
This work shows the preliminary results of an international project for the interdisciplinary study of the limestone used in the plasters of the ancient city of Teotihuacan. The limestone provenance…
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Dating Results From Excavations in Quarry Tunnels Behind the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan
Abstract In this article we summarize the results of an ongoing project designed to study the tunnels and caves of Teotihuacan, emphasizing those findings derived from the excavation of four…
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The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities
Recent realizations that prehispanic cities in Mesoamerica were fundamentally different from western cities of the same period have led to increasing examination of the neighborhood as an…
Can Government Be Self-Organized? A Mathematical Model of the Collective Social Organization of Ancient Teotihuacan, Central Mexico
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A mathematical model of the city’s hypothetical network of representatives is devised as a formal proof of concept that widespread cooperation was realizable in a fully distributed manner and related to theories about community-wide rituals at Teotihuacan and the city's eventual disintegration.
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Cultural evolution : contemporary viewpoints
Contributors. Preface. I: Introduction. 1. Cultural Evolutionary Approaches and Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future G. Feinman. II: Technological Change and Economic Specialization. 2. Guila…
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