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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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