Smith and Kidder (1951: 44) were among the first to highlight pyrite pre-Hispanic mirrors as
“marvels of painstaking craftsmanship.” These mirrors present reflective surfaces consisting�…

An innovative approach based on the combination of spectroscopy and traceology was used
in order to analyse iron ore mirrors excavated at the Sojo site (Chibcha area, present-day�…

Atwood, T., 1791. The History of the Island of Dominica. Containing a description of its
situation, extent, climate, mountains, rivers, natural productions, &c. &c. together with an�…

The human skeletal offerings at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitl�n include decapitated
skulls, some of them reused as skull masks. Little is known regarding who the individuals�…

Early urban societies feature specialized processes that integrate disparate populations as
part of their social construction. One such process is commensalism and the associated�…

Since 1978, the members of the Great Temple Project performed archaeological
excavations in the pre-Hispanic Sacred Precinct of Tenochtitlan, the Mexica's main�…

Desde que las sociedades mesoamericanas empezaron a experimentar procesos de
complejidad social, las nacientes elites demandaron bienes de lujo tanto para se�alar su�…

En las estructuras aleda�as al recinto sagrado de M�xico Tenochtitlan se han recuperado
poco m�s de 600 elementos lapidarios elaborados a partir de distintas piedras verdes, los�…

At the time of the Spanish Conquest, three main centers of metallurgical production
coexisted in the New World: the Andean area, the Colombian–Lower Central American�…

Los bienes ofrendados en el edificio del Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan proven�an de todos
los rincones del imperio. Mucho es lo que se ha aprendido sobre el significado de estos�…