N Sugiyama
Biographic Data
| ID | 27972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Sugiyama |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Sugiyama |
| SIGNATURE | SUGIYAMA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5734-6462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Carved monuments from Cerro Patlachique in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
Mountains figure prominently in Mesoamerican cosmogeny, and a deep history of pilgrimage and worship surrounds many, though few have been systematically investigated using modern archaeological methods. Here, the authors present results from the lidar mapping and surface survey of a plateau at the summit of Cerro Patlachique, located at the southern limit of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico. While ceramic typology establishes Cerro Patlachique as a…
Animal Matter in Indigenous Place-Thought
This article interrogates an archaeological application of the Indigenous concept of place-thought, defined by Vanessa Watts as an "understanding of the world via a physical embodiment" through studying corporeal animal forms. This latter encompasses the osteological traces of animal matter (sacrificed animals and prepared body parts) that, because of their material vitalities, provide an opportune site of engagement to retrieve ancient interpers…
Human ecological impacts on islands
The present study's primary goal is to apply analyses of stable isotopes and tooth micro- and mesowear to the question of dietary change among a mid-Holocene population of small brocket deer (Cervidae: Mazama) in response to anthropogenic alteration of the natural insular vegetation for approximately 450 calendar years (6060-5620 cal yr BP). The brocket deer remains were found in shell-bearing middens on Pedro González in the Pearl Island archipe…
Interactions between Ancient Teotihuacan and the Maya world
This chapter provides a perspective of Early Classic Teotihuacan-Maya interactions as interpreted from data within Teotihuacan’s city center. We address the following points: 1) The Teotihuacan state built a metropolitan cityscape around the 3rd century CE that effectively materialized a pan-Mesoamerican worldview at an unprecedented scale; 2) New excavation data suggest contacts with Maya groups originated during the midst of this monumental con…
Establishing a preservation index for bone, dentin, and enamel bioapatite mineral using ATR-FTIR
Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics
Creating the Cosmos, Reifying Power
Throughout Mesoamerica, corporal animal forms (a term encompassing living animals, animal-derived by-products and artifacts made from animal bodies) have long played essential roles in state-level ritualized activities. This paper focuses on three zooarchaeological assemblages from the Classic Period Maya kingdom of Copan, Honduras (ad426–822), to describe how corporal animal forms were implemented to mediate power, express social identities and …
Revisiting Sun Pyramid Ceramic and Radiocarbon Dates From Teotihuacan
Sload (2015) disregards stratigraphic data from the Sun Pyramid and misinterprets our radiocarbon dates that re-evaluates Teotihuacan ceramic chronology
Faunal acquisition, maintenance, and consumption
Leporid management and specialized food production at Teotihuacan
Feeding Teotihuacan
Animal Management, preparation and sacrifice
In 2004 the Moon Pyramid Project uncovered Burial 6, a massive offering cache at the core of the monument located at Teotihuacan's central ceremonial precinct. This dedicatory chamber included the remains of over fifty animals, the majority representing the most dangerous carnivores on the landscape such as eagles, felines (jaguars and pumas), canines (wolves, coyotes and hybrids between wolves and dogs) and rattlesnake. Faced with this extraordi…
Inside the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico
After more than a century of explorations at the Sun Pyramid in Teotihuacan, many uncertainties about the function, meaning, chronology, and use of the monument remain unresolved. Here we present preliminary results from excavations and mapping conducted by the Sun Pyramid Project to address some of these issues. We focus particularly on describing the architectural features excavated in the interior of the pyramid as well as the subterranean tun…
Taphonomic Analysis of the Mammalian Fauna from Sandia Cave, New Mexico, and the 'Sandia Man' Controversy
Sandia Cave in New Mexico was excavated in the late 1930s by Frank Hibben, who described a unique type of chipped stone artifact-the 'Sandia point'-in association with a faunal assemblage that included extinct Pleistocene species. The site was interpreted as a late Pleistocene Paleoindian hunting station, making it the earliest human occupation known in America at the time. Despite the pivotal role the faunal assemblage has played in interpretati…
Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics
Inside the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico
After more than a century of explorations at the Sun Pyramid in Teotihuacan, many uncertainties about the function, meaning, chronology, and use of the monument remain unresolved. Here we present preliminary results from excavations and mapping conducted by the Sun Pyramid Project to address some of these issues. We focus particularly on describing the architectural features excavated in the interior of the pyramid as well as the subterranean tun…
Establishing a preservation index for bone, dentin, and enamel bioapatite mineral using ATR-FTIR
Leporid management and specialized food production at Teotihuacan
Feeding Teotihuacan
Animal Management, preparation and sacrifice
In 2004 the Moon Pyramid Project uncovered Burial 6, a massive offering cache at the core of the monument located at Teotihuacan's central ceremonial precinct. This dedicatory chamber included the remains of over fifty animals, the majority representing the most dangerous carnivores on the landscape such as eagles, felines (jaguars and pumas), canines (wolves, coyotes and hybrids between wolves and dogs) and rattlesnake. Faced with this extraordi…
Taphonomic Analysis of the Mammalian Fauna from Sandia Cave, New Mexico, and the 'Sandia Man' Controversy
Sandia Cave in New Mexico was excavated in the late 1930s by Frank Hibben, who described a unique type of chipped stone artifact-the 'Sandia point'-in association with a faunal assemblage that included extinct Pleistocene species. The site was interpreted as a late Pleistocene Paleoindian hunting station, making it the earliest human occupation known in America at the time. Despite the pivotal role the faunal assemblage has played in interpretati…
Creating the Cosmos, Reifying Power
Throughout Mesoamerica, corporal animal forms (a term encompassing living animals, animal-derived by-products and artifacts made from animal bodies) have long played essential roles in state-level ritualized activities. This paper focuses on three zooarchaeological assemblages from the Classic Period Maya kingdom of Copan, Honduras (ad426–822), to describe how corporal animal forms were implemented to mediate power, express social identities and …
Faunal acquisition, maintenance, and consumption
Taphonomic Analysis of the Mammalian Fauna from Sandia Cave, New Mexico, and the 'Sandia Man' Controversy
Sandia Cave in New Mexico was excavated in the late 1930s by Frank Hibben, who described a unique type of chipped stone artifact-the 'Sandia point'-in association with a faunal assemblage that included extinct Pleistocene species. The site was interpreted as a late Pleistocene Paleoindian hunting station, making it the earliest human occupation known in America at the time. Despite the pivotal role the faunal assemblage has played in interpretati…
Animal Management, preparation and sacrifice
In 2004 the Moon Pyramid Project uncovered Burial 6, a massive offering cache at the core of the monument located at Teotihuacan's central ceremonial precinct. This dedicatory chamber included the remains of over fifty animals, the majority representing the most dangerous carnivores on the landscape such as eagles, felines (jaguars and pumas), canines (wolves, coyotes and hybrids between wolves and dogs) and rattlesnake. Faced with this extraordi…
Inside the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan, Mexico
After more than a century of explorations at the Sun Pyramid in Teotihuacan, many uncertainties about the function, meaning, chronology, and use of the monument remain unresolved. Here we present preliminary results from excavations and mapping conducted by the Sun Pyramid Project to address some of these issues. We focus particularly on describing the architectural features excavated in the interior of the pyramid as well as the subterranean tun…
Faunal acquisition, maintenance, and consumption
Leporid management and specialized food production at Teotihuacan
Feeding Teotihuacan
Revisiting Sun Pyramid Ceramic and Radiocarbon Dates From Teotihuacan
Sload (2015) disregards stratigraphic data from the Sun Pyramid and misinterprets our radiocarbon dates that re-evaluates Teotihuacan ceramic chronology
Creating the Cosmos, Reifying Power
Throughout Mesoamerica, corporal animal forms (a term encompassing living animals, animal-derived by-products and artifacts made from animal bodies) have long played essential roles in state-level ritualized activities. This paper focuses on three zooarchaeological assemblages from the Classic Period Maya kingdom of Copan, Honduras (ad426–822), to describe how corporal animal forms were implemented to mediate power, express social identities and …
Interactions between Ancient Teotihuacan and the Maya world
This chapter provides a perspective of Early Classic Teotihuacan-Maya interactions as interpreted from data within Teotihuacan’s city center. We address the following points: 1) The Teotihuacan state built a metropolitan cityscape around the 3rd century CE that effectively materialized a pan-Mesoamerican worldview at an unprecedented scale; 2) New excavation data suggest contacts with Maya groups originated during the midst of this monumental con…
Establishing a preservation index for bone, dentin, and enamel bioapatite mineral using ATR-FTIR
Domesticated landscapes of the neotropics
Human ecological impacts on islands
The present study's primary goal is to apply analyses of stable isotopes and tooth micro- and mesowear to the question of dietary change among a mid-Holocene population of small brocket deer (Cervidae: Mazama) in response to anthropogenic alteration of the natural insular vegetation for approximately 450 calendar years (6060-5620 cal yr BP). The brocket deer remains were found in shell-bearing middens on Pedro González in the Pearl Island archipe…
Animal Matter in Indigenous Place-Thought
This article interrogates an archaeological application of the Indigenous concept of place-thought, defined by Vanessa Watts as an "understanding of the world via a physical embodiment" through studying corporeal animal forms. This latter encompasses the osteological traces of animal matter (sacrificed animals and prepared body parts) that, because of their material vitalities, provide an opportune site of engagement to retrieve ancient interpers…
Carved monuments from Cerro Patlachique in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
Mountains figure prominently in Mesoamerican cosmogeny, and a deep history of pilgrimage and worship surrounds many, though few have been systematically investigated using modern archaeological methods. Here, the authors present results from the lidar mapping and surface survey of a plateau at the summit of Cerro Patlachique, located at the southern limit of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico. While ceramic typology establishes Cerro Patlachique as a…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Biology (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 works) · Geology (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Latin American history and culture (4 works)