More than four decades ago, H. B. Nicholson compared the so-called Palace Stone from Xochicalco to a page in a Mesoamerican codex. Showing numerous calendrical dates and toponymic signs connected by a path marked by ...

In this review, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma analyzes Ximena Chávez Balderas’s study on human sacrifice and postsacrificial treatments at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan. The book details the types of immolation, involved ...

In this review, Salvador Rueda Smithers analyzes Eduardo Matos Moctezuma’s Historia de la arqueología del México antiguo. Rather than providing a simple chronological account of excavations or renowned archaeologists, the ...

In this essay, Pablo González Casanova reflects on the symbolic presence of Teotihuacan in shaping Mexican identity. Through a historical and philosophical analysis, he examines modern interpretations of the archaeological ...

Rodrigo Martínez Baracs reviews the book Tesoro mexicano, a luxurious volume that brings together studies on European and Indigenous views of the American natural world. The book focuses on the 16th-century monumental work ...

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma reviews Barbara E. Mundy’s work, which examines the transformation of Tenochtitlan into Mexico City after the Spanish conquest. Mundy explores the persistence of Indigenous elements in urban layout, ...

This article intends to define the forms that the symbolic construction of authority assumed in the process of creation of the ruling elites, as well as the relationships that could have existed between the exercise of ...

This work presents the paleographic transcription and translation of Chapter 23 from Book VI of the Florentine Codex, focusing on aspects of daily life among the ancient Mexica. Ignacio Silva Cruz transcribes the original ...

This paper briefly analyses a series of Nahuatl sociolinguistic topics dealing with crucial political, ideological and pragmatic aspects of this tongue. These include the political economy that disputes the representation ...

A great amount of shell objects have been found in the Tenochca offerings. Most of the species used to manufacture these objects are marine, from the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of Mexico. This does not seem surprising, ...