Immigration, Assimilation, and Status in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: Stable Isotopic Evidence from Tlajinga 33

White, Christine D.; Storey, Rebecca; Longstaffe, Fred J.; Spence, Michael W.

doi:10.2307/4141553

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“…Material remains, including the bone chemistry studies described previously, document ethnic diversity within neighborhoods and even within apartments, with migrants potentially having arrived from Michoacán, Oaxaca, Veracruz, and the Maya region (Gómez Chávez 2002;Gómez Chávez and Gazzola 2007;Manzanilla 2009;Price et al 2000;Rattray 1993Rattray , 2004Spence et al 2004Spence et al , 2005Taube 2003;White et al 2004).…”

Section: The Organization Of Houses and Neighborhoodsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Carballo

2010

J Archaeol Res

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Recent investigations and reconsideration of households in the Mesoamerican highlands illustrate the central role of domestic spheres of interaction to the broader cultural dynamics of the region over four millennia. Methodological advances in the analysis of past houses permit more sophisticated social reconstructions of the spaces and activities that constituted domestic life for the diverse peoples of the region. Current studies highlight the economic interdependence and diversification of households, their strategic flexibility in affiliation, the integrative ritual practices undertaken within domestic spaces, the material correlates of prestige competition between households, and the manner in which households articulated with a larger social universe.

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Section: The Organization Of Houses and Neighborhoodsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Carballo

2010

J Archaeol Res

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“…First used in the early 1990s to identify the origins of soldiers from the War of 1812 (Schwarcz et al, 1991), this technique has been applied to remains from a variety of geographic regions, including Mesoamerica (Spence et al, 2004;White et al, 1998White et al, , 2000aWhite et al, , 2000bWhite et al, , 2002White et al, , 2004aWhite et al, , 2004b, the Caribbean (Schroeder et al, 2009), South America (Turner et al, 2009), Europe (Budd et al, 2003(Budd et al, , 2004Evans et al, 2006aEvans et al, , 2006bHoogewerff et al, 2001;Leach et al, 2009;Prowse et al, 2007), Africa (Buzon and Bowen, 2010;Dupras and Schwarcz, 2001), and the Middle East (Mitchell and Millard, 2009;Perry et al, 2009). Such studies have become increasingly multidimensional in nature, utilizing not only oxygen isotope data but multiple chemical techniques (e.g.…”

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Oxygen isotopic evidence of residence and migration in a Greek colonial population on the Black Sea

Keenleyside

Schwarcz

Panayotova³

2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Provided that most oxygen came from local water sources, oxygen isotope analysis of hydroxyapatite carbonate and phosphate indicates the environment in which an individual was living while her or his tooth enamel and bone was forming. Recent oxygen isotope analyses have identified archaeological human migration in Mesoamerica and beyond (White et al, 2004).…”

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Utility of multiple chemical techniques in archaeological residential mobility studies: Case studies from Tiwanaku‐ and Chiribaya‐affiliated sites in the Andes

Knudson

Price

2006

American J Phys Anthropol

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In the south central Andes, archaeologists have long debated the extent of Tiwanaku colonization during the Middle Horizon (AD 500-1000). We tested the hypotheses regarding the nature of Tiwanaku influence using strontium isotope, trace element concentration, and oxygen isotope data from archaeological human tooth enamel and bone from Tiwanaku- and Chiribaya-affiliated sites in the south central Andes. Strontium isotope analysis of 25 individuals buried at the Tiwanaku-affiliated Moquegua Valley site of Chen Chen demonstrates that it was likely a Tiwanaku colony. In contrast, no immigrants from the Lake Titicaca Basin were present in 27 individuals analyzed from the San Pedro de Atacama cemeteries of Coyo Oriental, Coyo-3, and Solcor-3; it is likely that these sites represent economic and religious alliances, but not colonies. However, strontium isotope analysis alone cannot distinguish movement between the Tiwanaku- and Chiribaya-affiliated sites in the Moquegua and Ilo Valleys of southern Peru. Analyzing oxygen isotope and trace element concentration data and comparing it with strontium isotope data from the same individuals provides a more detailed picture of residential mobility in the Tiwanaku and Chiribaya polities. In addition to monitoring diagenetic contamination, trace element concentration data identified movement during adulthood for certain individuals. However, these data could not distinguish movement between the Moquegua and Ilo Valleys. While oxygen isotope data could clearly distinguish the high-altitude sites from others, more data is needed to characterize the local oxygen isotope ratios of these regions. These data demonstrate the potential for archaeological reconstruction of residential mobility through multiple lines of evidence.

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Immigration, Assimilation, and Status in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: Stable Isotopic Evidence from Tlajinga 33

Cited by 78 publications

References 52 publications

Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Oxygen isotopic evidence of residence and migration in a Greek colonial population on the Black Sea

Utility of multiple chemical techniques in archaeological residential mobility studies: Case studies from Tiwanaku‐ and Chiribaya‐affiliated sites in the Andes

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