The site, located not far from Merida beside a road to Campeche, has attracted many visitors since the time of Mexico's independence. The first detailed account of the ruins was published by Jean Frederic Waldeck in 1838. John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood made two extended visits to...
Prior to that, we can think about man looking his shadow and acquiring conscience of Space and Time as proposed by R. Calvino. Now, we turn our attention to Mesoamerica where orientations of buildings to events on the Horizon (sunrise, sunset, and zenith passages) ar...
Phylogenetic relationships were evaluated with Bayesian inference (BI) and the BI tree was built with the software MrBayes v3.2.1 (Ronquist and Huelsenbeck 2003), under the assumption of a GTR + I + G (General Time Reversible) model of sequence evolution. The appropriate evolution model was...
This article provides an overview of advances in household archaeology of the Mesoamerican highlands over the past 17 years, since the last of a series of seminal volumes by Flannery (1976), Manzanilla (1986), Wilk and Ashmore (1988), MacEachern et al. (1989), and Santley and Hirth (1993...
After battling his way across the sky each day, he returned to the bosom of the earth, his mother (Coatlicue), where he renewed his strength in order to take up the fight against darkness. In order to guarantee human existence, the Aztecs, as “people of the sun,” had to nourish ...