Axes in Teotihuacan Urbanization
Old questions, so far not fully answered, about the factors that motivated the layout of the axis of Teotihuacan, led us to field studies and cabinet analysis that became the basis of our present proposal. Direct observations, toward the points indicated by solar rises and sunsets, on astronomically...
| Autor: | |
|---|---|
| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Anales de Antropología |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/84340 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/84340 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Urbanism in Teotihuacan Prehispanic calendars Monte Alban and Teotihuacan Astronomy in Teotihuacan Teotihuacan orientation Teotihuacan Monte Alban Urbanism Calendar Astronomy Prehispanic astronomy Calendarios prehispánicos Urbanismo en Teotihuacán Astronomía en Teotihuacán Monte Albán y Teotihuacán Orientación teotihuacana calendarios urbanismo Teotihuacán Monte Albán Astronomía prehispánica Astronomía |
| Sumario: | Old questions, so far not fully answered, about the factors that motivated the layout of the axis of Teotihuacan, led us to field studies and cabinet analysis that became the basis of our present proposal. Direct observations, toward the points indicated by solar rises and sunsets, on astronomically and calendrically relevant dates, led us to present a hypothesis about the origin of the two unique and highly precise urban traces in Teotihuacan, which governed the great, architectural and symbolic, project, in periods of urbanization clearly distinguishable in the orientations of constructions erected in them. The second period is the best known because for almost five centuries it governed the constructions whose remains we see today. The reasons that guided these axes have led to various hypotheses about why, even though the Teotihuacanos knew precisely the cardinal directions, they decided to move the axis of the urban plane of their city, on two occasions, both to the east of the north, but with different angles. The first orientation lasted half a century; the early axis apparently had as similar origin as the second, of calendrical astronomical type. |
|---|