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Making and Manipulating Ritual in the City of the Gods: Figurine Production and Use at Teotihuacán, México
Research Year: 2004 Table of Contents
Abstract Teotihuacán was the largest city of its time in ancient Mesoamerica, with significant evidence for specialized production and the distribution of craft goods throughout the city and abroad. Evidence for the production of a variety of goods has been recovered from several apartment compounds throughout the city. For example, specialized pottery production has been identified at the excavated apartment compound Tlajinga 33 or 33:S3W1 (Hopkins 1995; Sheehy 1992; Storey 1992; Sullivan 2002, 2005; Widmer and Storey 1993), while excavated materials from Tlamimilolpa, 1:N4E4, indicate production of textiles, basketry, and other items involving fiber work (Linné 2003b [1942]; Manzanilla 1996). Excavations at Tetitla (1:N2W2) recovered bone tools for working hides and polishing pottery (Manzanilla 1996; Pasztory 1997) and surface collections suggest obsidian tool production at the apartment compound at 29:N5W3 (Spence 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987). This project focuses on evidence for the production of ceramic figurines at an apartment compound located outside of the much-studied ceremonial center of Teotihuacán, ca. one kilometer west of the Pyramid of the Moon.
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