Representation of Teotihuacan and its territory in codices and colonial maps

Teotihuacan was one of the largest human settlements in Mesoamerica, although in the Postclassic and colonial times it had already lost some of that importance. In spite of this, it is represented in various pictographic documents from the colonial era, showing its name and some of the most importan...

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Autor: Bosque Cantón, Cristina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Anales de Antropología
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/67135
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/67135
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Teotihuacan
toponimia
códices mesoamericanos
cartografía colonial
toponymy
Mesoamerican codices
colonial cartography
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Sumario:Teotihuacan was one of the largest human settlements in Mesoamerica, although in the Postclassic and colonial times it had already lost some of that importance. In spite of this, it is represented in various pictographic documents from the colonial era, showing its name and some of the most important elements of the human landscape of this period.The objective of this work is to show, through the comparison of several pictographic documents, how a transformation occurred in both the conceptualization of the Teotihuacan toponym and in the elements that were represented at the cartographic level.