This review highlights the book Culturas del Golfo as a fundamental synthesis of the archaeology of the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Coordinated by Sara Ladrón de Guevara, the volume compiles contributions from leading scholars ...

This review evaluates El conejo en la cara de la luna, a collection of eighteen essays on ancient and contemporary Mesoamerican mythology written by Alfredo López Austin. Beginning with a lunar myth, the book addresses ...

This study consists of an overview of Azcapotzalco’s history from the 13th till the second half of the 16th century. Issues that will be analyzed are its foundation, its internal organization, the origin of the its two ...

Every four years, in Izcalli, the last veintena (20-day period) of the year, the nahuas conducted a number of rituals with the children: they were pierced the ears, stretched them to grow up, made them dance and gave them ...

This document is a transcription of a 16th-century chronicle written by Alonso de Santa Cruz. It focuses on the events surrounding the conquest of Mexico and the transformation of Tenochtitlan into a colonial city under ...

This article presents the paleographic transcription and Spanish translation of Chapters 3 to 6 of the “Divinatory Art” section of the Florentine Codex, a foundational ethnographic work compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún ...

This study presents the paleographic transcription and Spanish translation of chapters four and five of Book VI of the Florentine Codex, focused on pre-Hispanic indigenous medicine. Miguel León-Portilla interprets the ...

This article by philologist Pablo González Casanova addresses the debate over the existence of pre-Hispanic Nahuatl poetry. The author refutes 19th-century denials of indigenous poetic forms by citing key sources, such as ...

The word chocolate, which gives name to the most famous beverage of the new World, has been enigmatic. Its etymology and origin have been the subject of discussion and there is no text or source about it until the decade ...

This review analyzes the volume El universo de Sahagún. Pasado y presente, 2008, which compiles twelve contributions presented at the Second Colloquium devoted to the work of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún. It explores topics ...