This article analyzes the faunal remains recovered in Offering 125, a ritual deposit found to the west of the Tlaltecuhtli monolith. Taxonomic identification of the zoological species and the areas of origin will shed ...

“Blackness” seems to have been part of a wide conceptual core within Mesoamerican religion. In this essay, we analyse the concept of “Blackness” and its possible meanings as a reference of space within indigenous religion, ...

Historical sources and archaeological evidence have made us aware of the Mexica’s deep fascination with the material vestiges of civilizations that preceded them. Data generated by the Templo Mayor Project have revealed ...

In this article we identify the Dominican Domingo de Betanzos as the anonymous bearer of a rich gift of Mexican objects and codices offered in Bologna to Pope Clement VII (1533), as recorded in the Historie di Bologna ...

In this paper, a hitherto understudied source, the “Protesta” of the Augustinian friar Manuel Pérez in Spanish and Nahuatl, is reproduced, accompanied by an analysis of the text with glosses and the interpretation of this ...

This essay proposes two contrasting interpretations of the figure of Nezahualcoyotl in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca. It analyzes several episodes featuring that famous character considering ...

This article deals with a tepetlacalli or stone casket produced in the Basin of Mexico at the end of the Postclassic period. The article discusses the functions and meanings of stone caskets in Central Mexico and offers ...