Thomas H Charlton
Biographic Data
| ID | 75517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas H Charlton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas H |
| FAMILY NAME | Charlton |
| SIGNATURE | CHARLTON T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Aztec Otumba, AD 1200-1600: Patterns of the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Ceramic Products
Historical Archaeology in the Basin of Mexico and the Central Mexican Symbiotic Region: Development, Present Status, Future Prospects
The development of the field of historical archaeology in Mexico has made many advances since the inception, in effect, of its practice there in the 1960s. The roots of historical archaeology in the Central Mexican Symbiotic Region (CMSR) in general and in the Basin of Mexico in particular are discussed. Specific case studies illustrating some of the Historical Archaeology that has been done in the CMSR are referenced with particular note of some…
Nineteenth-century butchery and transport for a market economy: Plum Grove as a case study for commercial transactions in the Midwestern USA
Reynolds, Cerisa R., Kendall, Bryan, Whittaker, William E., Charlton, Thomas H. (2014): Nineteenth-century butchery and transport for a market economy: Plum Grove as a case study for commercial transactions in the Midwestern USA. Anthropozoologica 49 (1): 47-61, DOI: 10.5252/az2014n1a04, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2014n1a04
Historical Archaeology in Central and Western Mesoamerica
Recently there has been increasing interest in historical archaeology on a worldwide scale. A number of papers have been published dealing with the emergence and growth of historical archaeology in Mexico in general, and in western and northern Mesoamerica specifically, considering the characteristics of diverse research strategies and the incorporation of different approaches as used by historical archaeology in these regions. Other studies have…
Etnoarqueología el contexto dinámico de la cultura material a través del tiempo, by Edwardo Williams
(2010). Etnoarqueologia el contexto dinamico de la cultura material a traves del tiempo, by Edwardo Williams. Ethnoarchaeology: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 124-126
Historical Archaeology in Central and Northern Mesoamerica: Development and Current Status
El urbanismo en Mesoamerica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica, vol. 1
Book Review| January 01 2007 El urbanismo en Mesoamérica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica, vol. 1 El urbanismo en Mesoamérica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica, vol. 1. Edited by William T. Sanders, Alba Guadalupe Mastache, and Robert H. Cobean. (University Park: Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University; Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2003. xiv + 513 pp., preliminary note, introduction, illustrations. $35.00 paper.) Tho…
The Olmecs: America's First Civilization
The Olmecs: America's First Civilization. Richard A. Diehl. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2004. 208 pp
On Agrarian Landholdings in Post-Conquest Rural Mesoamerica
Commentary| January 01 2003 On Agrarian Landholdings in Post-Conquest Rural Mesoamerica Thomas H. Charlton Thomas H. Charlton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 221–230. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-1-221 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas H. Charlton; On Agrarian Landholdings in Post-Conquest Rural Mesoamerica. Ethnohi…
Neutrons, Markets, Cities, and Empires: A 1000-Year Perspective on Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Postclassic Basin of Mexico
Otumba and Its Neighbors: Ex Oriente Lux
Otumba is one of a few Late Aztec-period city-states in the Basin of Mexico whose central city or town is not obscured by post-Conquest occupation. Long-term research there began in the early 1960s, with more recent fieldwork between 1987 and 1989, and has been complemented by intensive laboratory and technical analyses that are still underway. Traditional typological analyses have been aided by neutron activation analyses providing strong eviden…
Provenience Investigation of Ceramics and Obsidian From Otumba
Obsidian and ceramic artifacts from the Otumba project were analyzed by instrumental neutron-activation analysis. Sources for the obsidian were determined by comparison to a databank of Central Mexican source analyses. Ceramic sources were determined by comparison to a series of reference groups from the Basin of Mexico and by comparison with raw material samples. Obsidian from the lapidary workshop (Operation 11) comes predominantly from the Otu…
Art on the rocks: Contemporary and prehistoric indigenous rock art in Australia
Layton, Robert Australian Rock Art: a New Synthesis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xi + 284 pp. including appendices, notes, references, and index. $65.00 cloth. Mowaljarlai, David and Jutta Malnic. Yorro, Yorro. Aboriginal Creation and the Renewal of Nature, Rock Paintings and Stories from the Australian Kimberley. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International Press, 1993. xxi + 226 pp. including appendices, glossary, and index. $…
Patrones arqueológicos de diferencias socio-étnicas en Nueva España. contrastes urbanos y rurales
El impacto de la dominación colonial española en las sociedades indígenas de Mesoamérica se refleja en la composición de las ciudades y pueblos donde el nuevo método, de control económico, político e ideológico rompe, en cierta medida, con las tradiciones prehispánicas. La arqueología histórica nos brinda la oportunidad de estudiar los procesos de cambio e integración que tuvieron lugar durante el período colonial, como se refleja en el uso del e…
The Postclassic Occupation at Otumba: A chronological assessment
The Aztec city-state of Otumba is the focus of a long-term project of archaeological investigation. Analysis of surface and excavated ceramics and obsidian-hydration dates for the capital—Otumba—indicate a dispersed Mazapan occupation, a scattered early Aztec (Aztec II) occupation, and an intense Late Aztec (Aztec III) and Early Colonial (Aztec III/IV) occupation. In the paper we incorporate recent radiocarbon dates to refine the local late Postc…
Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan
Urban and Rural Dimensions of the Contact Period
Art and archaeology: A potpourri
Conkey, Margaret, and Christine Hastorf, eds. The Uses of Style in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii + 124 pp. including references and index. $39.50 cloth. Davis, Whitney. The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xv + 272 pp. including references and index. $60.00 cloth. Morphy, Howard, ed. Animals into Art. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. xxv + 465 pp. including chapte…
Treasures of the Great Temple
Treasures of the Great Temple. Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Michel Zabe (translated by Richard Lindley). La Jolla: Alto Publishing, 1990. 180 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0‐9625399‐6‐1
Treasures of the Great Temple: Treasures of the Great Temple
Aztec craft production and specialization: Archaeological evidence from the city-state of Otumba, Mexico
Recent (1987–9) archaeological research within the Aztec city‐state of Otumba located in the northeastern Basin of Mexico has provided data relevant to a consideration of the role of craft specialization in the evolution of city‐states between the fall of Tula (c. AD 1150) and the arrival of the Spaniards (AD 1519). Designed to evaluate alternative models of such evolution the investigations have confirmed the presence of extensive archaeological…
The Economics of Urbanization and State Formation at Teotihuacan [and Comments and Reply]
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology: Contributions From Ethnoarchaeology on Mesoamerican Peasants [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
Urban growth and cultural evolution from a Oaxacan perspective
Blanton, Richard E., with contributions by William O. Autry, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Carl Kuttruff, Elsa Redmond, and Charles Spencer. Monte Alban: Settlement Patterns at the Ancient Zapotec Capital. New York: Academic Press, 1978. xxvi + 451 pp. including illustrations, loose map, and bibliography. $49.00 cloth. Blanton, Richard E., Stephen A. Kowalewski, Gary Feinman, and Jill Appel. Ancient Meso‐america:A Comparison of Change in Three Regions. …
Archeology: Sixteenth Century Maiolica Pottery in the Valley of Mexico . Florence C. Lister and Robert H. Lister
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: A View From Huexotla [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology: Contributions From Ethnoarchaeology on Mesoamerican Peasants [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
Aztec craft production and specialization: Archaeological evidence from the city-state of Otumba, Mexico
Recent (1987–9) archaeological research within the Aztec city‐state of Otumba located in the northeastern Basin of Mexico has provided data relevant to a consideration of the role of craft specialization in the evolution of city‐states between the fall of Tula (c. AD 1150) and the arrival of the Spaniards (AD 1519). Designed to evaluate alternative models of such evolution the investigations have confirmed the presence of extensive archaeological…
Otumba and Its Neighbors: Ex Oriente Lux
Otumba is one of a few Late Aztec-period city-states in the Basin of Mexico whose central city or town is not obscured by post-Conquest occupation. Long-term research there began in the early 1960s, with more recent fieldwork between 1987 and 1989, and has been complemented by intensive laboratory and technical analyses that are still underway. Traditional typological analyses have been aided by neutron activation analyses providing strong eviden…
Provenience Investigation of Ceramics and Obsidian From Otumba
Obsidian and ceramic artifacts from the Otumba project were analyzed by instrumental neutron-activation analysis. Sources for the obsidian were determined by comparison to a databank of Central Mexican source analyses. Ceramic sources were determined by comparison to a series of reference groups from the Basin of Mexico and by comparison with raw material samples. Obsidian from the lapidary workshop (Operation 11) comes predominantly from the Otu…
The Postclassic Occupation at Otumba: A chronological assessment
The Aztec city-state of Otumba is the focus of a long-term project of archaeological investigation. Analysis of surface and excavated ceramics and obsidian-hydration dates for the capital—Otumba—indicate a dispersed Mazapan occupation, a scattered early Aztec (Aztec II) occupation, and an intense Late Aztec (Aztec III) and Early Colonial (Aztec III/IV) occupation. In the paper we incorporate recent radiocarbon dates to refine the local late Postc…
Texcoco Fabric-Marked Pottery,Tlateles, and Salt-Making
An examination of the data used to support Nunley's hypothesis (1967) that Texcoco Fabric-marked pottery vessels functioned as flowerpots to adapt chinampa agriculture to saline Lake Texcoco does not confirm his conclusions. The distribution of the ware andtlatelescoincides not with chinampa agriculture but with salt-producing communities of the 16th century. Aboriginal salt-making produced large mounds of washed or leached soils which are thetla…
The Economics of Urbanization and State Formation at Teotihuacan [and Comments and Reply]
Contemporary Central Mexican Ceramics: A View from the Past
The technologies and styles of contemporary Central Mexican ceramic complexes are often attributed a substantial time depth reflecting a syncretism of indigenous and Spanish ceramic traditions which occurred during the first century after the conquest. On-going archaeological studies of postconquest data from the rural eastern Teotihuacain Valley suggest that technological syncretism occurred prior to and independent of any stylistic changes. Sty…
Texcoco Region Archaeology and the Codex Xolotl
The use of a hypothesis of conflict between Tula and Cholula by Parsons (1970) to account for settlement patterns and ceramics of the Toltec periods in the Texcoco region has resulted in the introduction of inconsistencies in the settlement interpretations of the preconquest Texcoco sequence. The Tula-Cholula Conflict Hypothesis is based on inadequate data and not supported. However, it is possible to interpret the settlement and ceramic changes …
Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Post-Conquest Aztec Sites
Recent archaeological and ethnographic research has made known the pre-Conquest and contemporary settlement patterns of the Teotihuacán Valley. Similar data for the intervening post-Conquest period are not available. Most archaeologists have restricted their research to the pre-Conquest period, and the documents do not contain pertinent detailed information on settlement patterns.To resolve this problem I propose the application of archaeological…
Texcoco Fabric-Marked Pottery and Salt-Making: A Further Note
Documentary data of the sixteenth century indicate the manufacture of ceramic vessels for salt-making and trade. Texcoco Fabric-marked pottery is the archaeological manifestation of these vessels. Use of a special ware is related to increased salt-making in the Aztec period. Implications of this for the economic integration of Central Mexico are mentioned
On Agrarian Landholdings in Post-Conquest Rural Mesoamerica
Commentary| January 01 2003 On Agrarian Landholdings in Post-Conquest Rural Mesoamerica Thomas H. Charlton Thomas H. Charlton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (1): 221–230. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-50-1-221 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas H. Charlton; On Agrarian Landholdings in Post-Conquest Rural Mesoamerica. Ethnohi…
On the Identification of Pre-Hispanic Obsidian Mines in Southern Hidalgo
An examination of reports by Tylor (1861), Holmes (1900, 1919), and Spence and Parsons (1967) describing obsidian mines near Cerro de las Navajas in southern Hidalgo indicates that not one but three mine groups have been visited and described
Nineteenth-century butchery and transport for a market economy: Plum Grove as a case study for commercial transactions in the Midwestern USA
Reynolds, Cerisa R., Kendall, Bryan, Whittaker, William E., Charlton, Thomas H. (2014): Nineteenth-century butchery and transport for a market economy: Plum Grove as a case study for commercial transactions in the Midwestern USA. Anthropozoologica 49 (1): 47-61, DOI: 10.5252/az2014n1a04, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2014n1a04
El urbanismo en Mesoamerica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica, vol. 1
Book Review| January 01 2007 El urbanismo en Mesoamérica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica, vol. 1 El urbanismo en Mesoamérica/Urbanism in Mesoamerica, vol. 1. Edited by William T. Sanders, Alba Guadalupe Mastache, and Robert H. Cobean. (University Park: Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University; Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2003. xiv + 513 pp., preliminary note, introduction, illustrations. $35.00 paper.) Tho…
Art and archaeology: A potpourri
Conkey, Margaret, and Christine Hastorf, eds. The Uses of Style in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii + 124 pp. including references and index. $39.50 cloth. Davis, Whitney. The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xv + 272 pp. including references and index. $60.00 cloth. Morphy, Howard, ed. Animals into Art. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. xxv + 465 pp. including chapte…
Urban growth and cultural evolution from a Oaxacan perspective
Blanton, Richard E., with contributions by William O. Autry, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Carl Kuttruff, Elsa Redmond, and Charles Spencer. Monte Alban: Settlement Patterns at the Ancient Zapotec Capital. New York: Academic Press, 1978. xxvi + 451 pp. including illustrations, loose map, and bibliography. $49.00 cloth. Blanton, Richard E., Stephen A. Kowalewski, Gary Feinman, and Jill Appel. Ancient Meso‐america:A Comparison of Change in Three Regions. …
Archaeology: Miscellaneous Studies in Mexican Prehistory . Michael W. SPENCE, JEFFREY R. Parsons, and Mary HRONES Parsons. With contribution by George Fraunfelter. University of Michigan, Museum of An…
On Iroquois Incest
Archeology: Settlement Archaeology. K. C. Chang, ed
Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Post-Conquest Aztec Sites
Recent archaeological and ethnographic research has made known the pre-Conquest and contemporary settlement patterns of the Teotihuacán Valley. Similar data for the intervening post-Conquest period are not available. Most archaeologists have restricted their research to the pre-Conquest period, and the documents do not contain pertinent detailed information on settlement patterns.To resolve this problem I propose the application of archaeological…
Texcoco Fabric-Marked Pottery,Tlateles, and Salt-Making
An examination of the data used to support Nunley's hypothesis (1967) that Texcoco Fabric-marked pottery vessels functioned as flowerpots to adapt chinampa agriculture to saline Lake Texcoco does not confirm his conclusions. The distribution of the ware andtlatelescoincides not with chinampa agriculture but with salt-producing communities of the 16th century. Aboriginal salt-making produced large mounds of washed or leached soils which are thetla…
On the Identification of Pre-Hispanic Obsidian Mines in Southern Hidalgo
An examination of reports by Tylor (1861), Holmes (1900, 1919), and Spence and Parsons (1967) describing obsidian mines near Cerro de las Navajas in southern Hidalgo indicates that not one but three mine groups have been visited and described
Texcoco Fabric-Marked Pottery and Salt-Making: A Further Note
Documentary data of the sixteenth century indicate the manufacture of ceramic vessels for salt-making and trade. Texcoco Fabric-marked pottery is the archaeological manifestation of these vessels. Use of a special ware is related to increased salt-making in the Aztec period. Implications of this for the economic integration of Central Mexico are mentioned
On Postconquest Depopulation in the Americas
Population trends in the Teotihuacán Valley, A.D. 1400–1969
Despite abundant data on preconquest sites and population in the Valley of Mexico, recent surveys yielded little information on post‐conquest settlement, sites being classified as either Aztec or modern on the basis of pottery. Through an integrated research project involving surface survey, documentary data (including especially dated site occupation), and studies of recent and modern pottery in the area, sites have now been identified for the w…
Anthropology and the Arts: Olmec: An Early Art Style of Precolumbian Mexico. CHARLES R. Wicke
Landlord and Peasant in Colonial Oaxaca
Ethnology: Anthropologische Analyse altaztekischer Texte. Teil 1: Die magischen Texte im Tratado Ruiz de Alarcóns (1629). Eike Hinz
A Rain of Darts: The Mexico Aztecs
Texcoco Region Archaeology and the Codex Xolotl
The use of a hypothesis of conflict between Tula and Cholula by Parsons (1970) to account for settlement patterns and ceramics of the Toltec periods in the Texcoco region has resulted in the introduction of inconsistencies in the settlement interpretations of the preconquest Texcoco sequence. The Tula-Cholula Conflict Hypothesis is based on inadequate data and not supported. However, it is possible to interpret the settlement and ceramic changes …
Archaeology: The Lost Civilization: The Story of the Classic Maya . T. Patrick Culbert. Harper's Case Studies in Archaeology
Archaeology: Miscellaneous Studies in Mexican Prehistory . Michael W. SPENCE, JEFFREY R. Parsons, and Mary HRONES Parsons. With contribution by George Fraunfelter. University of Michigan, Museum of An…
From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: The Early Period Revisited
Blanton 's use of a hypothesis of warfare among Early Post- Teotihuacan sociocultural entities of the Basin of Mexico to account for selective reoccupation following the end of Teotihuacan is based ultimately on a conceptualization of a dichotomy between a peaceful Classic period and a warlike Postclassic period. Except for unoccupied areas between local concentrations of Early Toltec sites there are no data to support the warfare hypothesis. Thr…
Archaeology: Studies of Ancient Tollan: A Report of the University of Missouri Tula Archaeological Project. Richard A. Diehl
Markets in Oaxaca
Contemporary Central Mexican Ceramics: A View from the Past
The technologies and styles of contemporary Central Mexican ceramic complexes are often attributed a substantial time depth reflecting a syncretism of indigenous and Spanish ceramic traditions which occurred during the first century after the conquest. On-going archaeological studies of postconquest data from the rural eastern Teotihuacain Valley suggest that technological syncretism occurred prior to and independent of any stylistic changes. Sty…
Mesoamerica: The Aztecs
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: A View From Huexotla [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from Huexotla, an Aztec-period site in the Valley of Mexico, are used to test the proposition that Mexican states arose and expanded to facilitate specialization and market exchange. By and large, this proposition is not supported by the Huexotla data. During Early Aztec times, the Valley of Mexico was divided into a number of small, autonomous city-states. The Huexotla data suggest that the local economies of these city-state…
Archeology: Sixteenth Century Maiolica Pottery in the Valley of Mexico . Florence C. Lister and Robert H. Lister
Urban growth and cultural evolution from a Oaxacan perspective
Blanton, Richard E., with contributions by William O. Autry, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Carl Kuttruff, Elsa Redmond, and Charles Spencer. Monte Alban: Settlement Patterns at the Ancient Zapotec Capital. New York: Academic Press, 1978. xxvi + 451 pp. including illustrations, loose map, and bibliography. $49.00 cloth. Blanton, Richard E., Stephen A. Kowalewski, Gary Feinman, and Jill Appel. Ancient Meso‐america:A Comparison of Change in Three Regions. …
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology: Contributions From Ethnoarchaeology on Mesoamerican Peasants [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
The Economics of Urbanization and State Formation at Teotihuacan [and Comments and Reply]
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