TY - JOUR
T1 - The Moon Pyramid project and the Teotihuacan state polity
T2 - A brief summary of the 1998-2004 excavations
AU - Sugiyamaa, Saburo
AU - Cabrera Castrob, Rubén
N1 - Funding Information:
The fieldwork of the Moon Pyramid Project during 1998–2004 has been a collaboration involving various institutions and people. Saburo Sugiyama, of Aichi Prefectural University and Arizona State University and Rubén Cabrera Castro of INAH co-directed the field work with grants from the National Science Foundation, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Geographic Society, and Arizona State University. The project was authorized by the Mexican government’s Consejo de Arqueología. This issue of Ancient Mesoamerica incorporates some of the papers presented in two symposia on the Moon Pyramid Project organized for the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings in 2001 and 2003. Two temporary exhibitions of the Moon Pyramid Project were carried out at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and at the Templo Mayor Museum in 2004 and 2006, for which we are sincerely grateful to INAH authorities and the museums’ collaborators (Sugiyama 2004; Sugiyama and López Luján 2006).
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - The Moon Pyramid is the second largest monument at Teotihuacan and represents a key source of information regarding the state polity and its underlying ideology. It was little known archaeologically until now. Extensive excavations around the pyramid and tunnel operations within its nucleus have discovered an elaborate architectural sequence, including seven overlapping monumental constructions and five burial complexes of sacrificed individuals and sacred animals associated with rich offerings. The excavations in nearby structures and the threedimensional mapping of the Moon Plaza complex provide valuable new data relevant to better understanding the ancient city, including its foundation and urbanization processes and the ideology of leadership that was materialized by successive monumental constructions.
AB - The Moon Pyramid is the second largest monument at Teotihuacan and represents a key source of information regarding the state polity and its underlying ideology. It was little known archaeologically until now. Extensive excavations around the pyramid and tunnel operations within its nucleus have discovered an elaborate architectural sequence, including seven overlapping monumental constructions and five burial complexes of sacrificed individuals and sacred animals associated with rich offerings. The excavations in nearby structures and the threedimensional mapping of the Moon Plaza complex provide valuable new data relevant to better understanding the ancient city, including its foundation and urbanization processes and the ideology of leadership that was materialized by successive monumental constructions.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0956536107000053
DO - 10.1017/S0956536107000053
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34548084904
SN - 0956-5361
VL - 18
SP - 109
EP - 125
JO - Ancient Mesoamerica
JF - Ancient Mesoamerica
IS - 1
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