Kenneth G Hirth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 117729 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kenneth G Hirth |
| PRENOMES | Kenneth G |
| SOBRENOME | Hirth |
| ASSINATURA | HIRTH K G |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 498 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
The Legacy of Ann Cyphers for Olmec Archaeology
The Paleoindian to Archaic Transition in Central America
The El Gigante point morphology has similarities with approximately contemporaneous and well-known (though not well-dated) late Paleoindian projectile point traditions and reflects important differences that may be consistent with a pattern of diversification of point styles across the Central American region which include the establishment of a related subregional tradition. This study looks at the Paleoindian-Archaic transition at the El Gigant…
New Perspectives on Migration into the Tlajinga District of Teotihuacan
The city of Teotihuacan (AD 1-550) was a major multiethnic urban center that attracted migrants from as far away as west Mexico and the Maya region. Past research in the Tlajinga district at Teotihuacan using oxygen isotopes from human remains estimated that nearly 30% of the population of Tlajinga 33, a single apartment compound, were migrants. This study takes a dual-isotope approach (87Sr/86Sr and δ18Op) to reevaluate the proportion of in-migr…
Aztec and Tlaxcalan Economic Interaction
This study investigates the impact of the Aztec Triple Alliance on trade and economic activity in the region of Puebla-Tlaxcala during the Late Postclassic period (AD 1200-1519). Ethnohistorical sources describe the Aztec Triple Alliance as constantly at war with settlements in the Tlaxcala region. To weaken their Tlaxcalteca rivals, the Aztecs imposed a trade blockade to reduce the flow of resources into Puebla-Tlaxcala. This article uses archae…
Excavation of an Obsidian Craft Workshop at Teotihuacan, Mexico
The original research by the Teotihuacan Mapping Project (TMP) identified a large number of obsidian workshops within Teotihuacan based on surface concentrations of production debris. Clark (1986b) questioned the validity of these identifications and called for subsurface excavation to confirm the presence of in situ workshop locales. This article summarizes the results from the excavation of one of the obsidian workshops identified in the Tlajin…
Altica, Coapexco, and the Role of Middlemen in Formative Obsidian Exchange
Altica's location in the Patlachique Range, 10 km away from the Otumba obsidian source, suggests its potential role in the distribution of Otumba obsidian. Altica may have been an important Formative middleman and processing site for obsidian exchange within the Basin of Mexico. To the south, Coapexco's position along a natural, restricted inlet to the Basin of Mexico may have enabled it to function as a node for pooling and distributing material…
New Research at Teotihuacan’s Tlajinga District, 2012–2015
Teotihuacan's Tlajinga district is a cluster of neighborhoods on the southern periphery of the city best known for earlier investigations at Compound 33:S3W1. New research includes excavations at two other apartment compounds and along the southern extension of the Street of the Dead. Excavation contexts, major finds, chronology, and preliminary interpretations are the subject of this article. We highlight evidence attesting to a major obsidian-b…
The El Gigante Rockshelter
La cueva de El Gigante en las tierras altas de Honduras fue ocupada tan temprano como 10,000 años a.P. y da información previamente desconocida sobre la prehistoria de Honduras. Las condiciones climáticas secas resultan en una excelente preservación de esta área residencial. Las excavaciones documentaron una clara secuencia de ocho estratos culturales bien definidos que contienen hogares, así como depósitos densos de lítica, y restos microbotánic…
Obsidian Blade Production for Craft Consumption at Kaminaljuyu
The interpretation of craft activity in Mesoamerica has been hindered by difficulties in recognizing and defining the archaeological signatures associated with obsidian blade production and consumption. Theoretical advances and experimental approaches have improved our understanding, but few studies have investigated the role of obsidian blade production in craft activity using empirical data from archaeological assemblages. The present study add…
Exploring Formative Period Obsidian Blade Trade
Obsidian prismatic blades were widely traded across Mesoamerica during the Early and Middle Formative periods. However, it was not until the Late Formative period (400b.c.—a.d. 100) that prismatic blade cores began to be exchanged extensively. Although it is generally accepted that the trading of blades preceded the trading of cores by almost 1,000 years, little is know about the structure of blade trading during the Early and Middle Formative pe…
Intermittent Domestic Lapidary Production during the Late Formative Period at Nativitas, Tlaxcala, Mexico
The Economy of Supply
This article examines the way that obsidian craftsmen at Xochicalco, Mexico obtained the raw material needed to produce prismatic blades at the site between A.D. 650 and 900. The paper models seven different forms of direct, indirect, and institutional procurement that craftsmen could have used to obtain this obsidian. These seven procurement models are evaluated using two types of information collected from four domestic workshops: (1) source an…
Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage
Book Review| October 01 2001 Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: Teotihuacan to the Aztecs Edited by David Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, and Scott Sessions. (Boulder,University Press of Colorado, 2000. xvii + 559 pp., introduction,illustrations, index. $49.95 cloth.) Kenneth G. Hirth Kenneth G. Hirth Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 739–741. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-4-739 Cite Icon Cite Shar…
The Distributional Approach
Archaeologists working in Mesoamerica have long recognized the importance and antiquity of marketplaces and market exchange in the organization and integration of pre-Hispanic society. Most approaches currently employed have, however, had difficulty in identifying pre-Hispanic marketplaces using material remains. This study introduces a new way to identify marketplace exchange based on the composition of domestic assemblages and how they are affe…
Zapotec Civilization
Political economy and archaeology
The Investigation of Obsidian Craft Production at Xochicalco, Morelos
Surface reconnaissance at the site of Xochicalco, Morelos, identified 12 areas believed to be production locales where obsidian tools were manufactured during the Epiclassic period (A.D. 700-900). Production locales were identified from concentrations of chipped stone debitage located in both residential and nonresidential contexts at Xochicalco. Differences in the size and location of these production locales suggested obsidian craft activity wa…
Urbanism, Militarism, and Architectural Design
The form and organization of urban architecture is examined at the central Mexico site of Xochicalco to reconstruct aspects of both its internal community structure and regional political organization during the Epiclassic period (A.D. 700-900). Analysis of the site's defensive architecture provides unique information about the city's internal design. Dry moats, walled roads, and steep terrace facades subdivide the community into a series of popu…
Tres estudios sobre el sistema tributario de los meocicas. Munehiro Kobayashi
Prehispanic domestic units in western Mesoamerica
The Archaeology of Political Structure
The Development of Prehispanic Cotton-Spinning Technology in Western Morelos, Mexico
Cotton textiles played important economic, social, and political roles in the Prehispanic civilizations of Mesoamerica, yet archaeologists have made little progress in the analysis of textile production beyond the simple identification of spindle whorls. In this article we identify and describe whorls and a second artifactual marker of cotton spinning: ceramic spinning bowls. Quantitative changes in the occurrence of these artifacts in excavated …
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply]
Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 2, Economic Aspects of Prehispanic Highland Mexico
Archeology
The Distributional Approach
Archaeologists working in Mesoamerica have long recognized the importance and antiquity of marketplaces and market exchange in the organization and integration of pre-Hispanic society. Most approaches currently employed have, however, had difficulty in identifying pre-Hispanic marketplaces using material remains. This study introduces a new way to identify marketplace exchange based on the composition of domestic assemblages and how they are affe…
Political economy and archaeology
Interregional Trade and the Formation of Prehistoric Gateway Communities
Interregional exchange of commodities appears to have been important in the formation of complex societies. The transition from reciprocal to redistribution economies involved an institutionalization of long distance exchange. Large and important settlements called gateway communities emerged along natural trade routes at key locales for controlling the movement of commodities. A model is constructed that relates long distance trade and regional …
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply]
The Development of Prehispanic Cotton-Spinning Technology in Western Morelos, Mexico
Cotton textiles played important economic, social, and political roles in the Prehispanic civilizations of Mesoamerica, yet archaeologists have made little progress in the analysis of textile production beyond the simple identification of spindle whorls. In this article we identify and describe whorls and a second artifactual marker of cotton spinning: ceramic spinning bowls. Quantitative changes in the occurrence of these artifacts in excavated …
The Economy of Supply
This article examines the way that obsidian craftsmen at Xochicalco, Mexico obtained the raw material needed to produce prismatic blades at the site between A.D. 650 and 900. The paper models seven different forms of direct, indirect, and institutional procurement that craftsmen could have used to obtain this obsidian. These seven procurement models are evaluated using two types of information collected from four domestic workshops: (1) source an…
Exploring Formative Period Obsidian Blade Trade
Obsidian prismatic blades were widely traded across Mesoamerica during the Early and Middle Formative periods. However, it was not until the Late Formative period (400b.c.—a.d. 100) that prismatic blade cores began to be exchanged extensively. Although it is generally accepted that the trading of blades preceded the trading of cores by almost 1,000 years, little is know about the structure of blade trading during the Early and Middle Formative pe…
Teotihuacán regional population administration in Eastern Morelos
The Teotihuacán state expanded throughout Central Mexico around A.D. 200 creating a large sustaining hinterland for the support of its large urban centre. Teotihuacán influence is very strong at this time along the Rio Amatzinac in eastern Morelos and it is accompanied by sizeable regional population restructuring which helps shed light on the nature of its administrative system outside the Valley of Mexico
The El Gigante Rockshelter
La cueva de El Gigante en las tierras altas de Honduras fue ocupada tan temprano como 10,000 años a.P. y da información previamente desconocida sobre la prehistoria de Honduras. Las condiciones climáticas secas resultan en una excelente preservación de esta área residencial. Las excavaciones documentaron una clara secuencia de ocho estratos culturales bien definidos que contienen hogares, así como depósitos densos de lítica, y restos microbotánic…
Catchment Analysis and Formative Settlement in the Valley of Mexico
New Research at Teotihuacan’s Tlajinga District, 2012–2015
Teotihuacan's Tlajinga district is a cluster of neighborhoods on the southern periphery of the city best known for earlier investigations at Compound 33:S3W1. New research includes excavations at two other apartment compounds and along the southern extension of the Street of the Dead. Excavation contexts, major finds, chronology, and preliminary interpretations are the subject of this article. We highlight evidence attesting to a major obsidian-b…
Excavation of an Obsidian Craft Workshop at Teotihuacan, Mexico
The original research by the Teotihuacan Mapping Project (TMP) identified a large number of obsidian workshops within Teotihuacan based on surface concentrations of production debris. Clark (1986b) questioned the validity of these identifications and called for subsurface excavation to confirm the presence of in situ workshop locales. This article summarizes the results from the excavation of one of the obsidian workshops identified in the Tlajin…
The Investigation of Obsidian Craft Production at Xochicalco, Morelos
Surface reconnaissance at the site of Xochicalco, Morelos, identified 12 areas believed to be production locales where obsidian tools were manufactured during the Epiclassic period (A.D. 700-900). Production locales were identified from concentrations of chipped stone debitage located in both residential and nonresidential contexts at Xochicalco. Differences in the size and location of these production locales suggested obsidian craft activity wa…
Urbanism, Militarism, and Architectural Design
The form and organization of urban architecture is examined at the central Mexico site of Xochicalco to reconstruct aspects of both its internal community structure and regional political organization during the Epiclassic period (A.D. 700-900). Analysis of the site's defensive architecture provides unique information about the city's internal design. Dry moats, walled roads, and steep terrace facades subdivide the community into a series of popu…
Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 2, Economic Aspects of Prehispanic Highland Mexico
New Perspectives on Migration into the Tlajinga District of Teotihuacan
The city of Teotihuacan (AD 1-550) was a major multiethnic urban center that attracted migrants from as far away as west Mexico and the Maya region. Past research in the Tlajinga district at Teotihuacan using oxygen isotopes from human remains estimated that nearly 30% of the population of Tlajinga 33, a single apartment compound, were migrants. This study takes a dual-isotope approach (87Sr/86Sr and δ18Op) to reevaluate the proportion of in-migr…
Altica, Coapexco, and the Role of Middlemen in Formative Obsidian Exchange
Altica's location in the Patlachique Range, 10 km away from the Otumba obsidian source, suggests its potential role in the distribution of Otumba obsidian. Altica may have been an important Formative middleman and processing site for obsidian exchange within the Basin of Mexico. To the south, Coapexco's position along a natural, restricted inlet to the Basin of Mexico may have enabled it to function as a node for pooling and distributing material…
Obsidian Blade Production for Craft Consumption at Kaminaljuyu
The interpretation of craft activity in Mesoamerica has been hindered by difficulties in recognizing and defining the archaeological signatures associated with obsidian blade production and consumption. Theoretical advances and experimental approaches have improved our understanding, but few studies have investigated the role of obsidian blade production in craft activity using empirical data from archaeological assemblages. The present study add…
Transportation Architecture at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico
Aztec and Tlaxcalan Economic Interaction
This study investigates the impact of the Aztec Triple Alliance on trade and economic activity in the region of Puebla-Tlaxcala during the Late Postclassic period (AD 1200-1519). Ethnohistorical sources describe the Aztec Triple Alliance as constantly at war with settlements in the Tlaxcala region. To weaken their Tlaxcalteca rivals, the Aztecs imposed a trade blockade to reduce the flow of resources into Puebla-Tlaxcala. This article uses archae…
Problems in Data Recovery and Measurement in Settlement Archaeology
The importance of demographic information for our understanding of the evolution of society has established the need for intensive settlement reconnaissance at the regional level. In many instances, however, the validity of techniques currently being used to generate population estimates has not been established through rigorous archaeological testing. This study presents empirical evidence for the effect of different types of surface disturbance…
Intermittent Domestic Lapidary Production during the Late Formative Period at Nativitas, Tlaxcala, Mexico
Teotihuacán regional population administration in Eastern Morelos
The Teotihuacán state expanded throughout Central Mexico around A.D. 200 creating a large sustaining hinterland for the support of its large urban centre. Teotihuacán influence is very strong at this time along the Rio Amatzinac in eastern Morelos and it is accompanied by sizeable regional population restructuring which helps shed light on the nature of its administrative system outside the Valley of Mexico
Problems in Data Recovery and Measurement in Settlement Archaeology
The importance of demographic information for our understanding of the evolution of society has established the need for intensive settlement reconnaissance at the regional level. In many instances, however, the validity of techniques currently being used to generate population estimates has not been established through rigorous archaeological testing. This study presents empirical evidence for the effect of different types of surface disturbance…
Interregional Trade and the Formation of Prehistoric Gateway Communities
Interregional exchange of commodities appears to have been important in the formation of complex societies. The transition from reciprocal to redistribution economies involved an institutionalization of long distance exchange. Large and important settlements called gateway communities emerged along natural trade routes at key locales for controlling the movement of commodities. A model is constructed that relates long distance trade and regional …
Transportation Architecture at Xochicalco, Morelos, Mexico
El Formativo en El Valle Del Rímac
En los meses de setiembre, octubre y noviembre de 1978 se efectuó un reconocimiento de superficie en Huachipa y Jicamarca, en el sector de la quebrada de Jicamarca (Huayco Loro) que ingresa al río Rímac por su margen norte, a la altura de Vitarte (kilómetro 10 de la carretera central), Huachipa norte, Pueblo Nuevo de Jicamarca y Cajamarquilla. Esta área está rodeada naturalmente por Cuello de Huachipa en el norte, cerro Matabuey en el este, cerro…
Archeology
Catchment Analysis and Formative Settlement in the Valley of Mexico
Research in Economic Anthropology, Supplement 2, Economic Aspects of Prehispanic Highland Mexico
The Development of Prehispanic Cotton-Spinning Technology in Western Morelos, Mexico
Cotton textiles played important economic, social, and political roles in the Prehispanic civilizations of Mesoamerica, yet archaeologists have made little progress in the analysis of textile production beyond the simple identification of spindle whorls. In this article we identify and describe whorls and a second artifactual marker of cotton spinning: ceramic spinning bowls. Quantitative changes in the occurrence of these artifacts in excavated …
Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply]
The Archaeology of Political Structure
Prehispanic domestic units in western Mesoamerica
The Investigation of Obsidian Craft Production at Xochicalco, Morelos
Surface reconnaissance at the site of Xochicalco, Morelos, identified 12 areas believed to be production locales where obsidian tools were manufactured during the Epiclassic period (A.D. 700-900). Production locales were identified from concentrations of chipped stone debitage located in both residential and nonresidential contexts at Xochicalco. Differences in the size and location of these production locales suggested obsidian craft activity wa…
Urbanism, Militarism, and Architectural Design
The form and organization of urban architecture is examined at the central Mexico site of Xochicalco to reconstruct aspects of both its internal community structure and regional political organization during the Epiclassic period (A.D. 700-900). Analysis of the site's defensive architecture provides unique information about the city's internal design. Dry moats, walled roads, and steep terrace facades subdivide the community into a series of popu…
Tres estudios sobre el sistema tributario de los meocicas. Munehiro Kobayashi
Political economy and archaeology
Zapotec Civilization
The Distributional Approach
Archaeologists working in Mesoamerica have long recognized the importance and antiquity of marketplaces and market exchange in the organization and integration of pre-Hispanic society. Most approaches currently employed have, however, had difficulty in identifying pre-Hispanic marketplaces using material remains. This study introduces a new way to identify marketplace exchange based on the composition of domestic assemblages and how they are affe…
Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage
Book Review| October 01 2001 Mesoamerica's Classic Heritage: Teotihuacan to the Aztecs Edited by David Carrasco, Lindsay Jones, and Scott Sessions. (Boulder,University Press of Colorado, 2000. xvii + 559 pp., introduction,illustrations, index. $49.95 cloth.) Kenneth G. Hirth Kenneth G. Hirth Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (4): 739–741. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-48-4-739 Cite Icon Cite Shar…
The Economy of Supply
This article examines the way that obsidian craftsmen at Xochicalco, Mexico obtained the raw material needed to produce prismatic blades at the site between A.D. 650 and 900. The paper models seven different forms of direct, indirect, and institutional procurement that craftsmen could have used to obtain this obsidian. These seven procurement models are evaluated using two types of information collected from four domestic workshops: (1) source an…
Obsidian Blade Production for Craft Consumption at Kaminaljuyu
The interpretation of craft activity in Mesoamerica has been hindered by difficulties in recognizing and defining the archaeological signatures associated with obsidian blade production and consumption. Theoretical advances and experimental approaches have improved our understanding, but few studies have investigated the role of obsidian blade production in craft activity using empirical data from archaeological assemblages. The present study add…
Exploring Formative Period Obsidian Blade Trade
Obsidian prismatic blades were widely traded across Mesoamerica during the Early and Middle Formative periods. However, it was not until the Late Formative period (400b.c.—a.d. 100) that prismatic blade cores began to be exchanged extensively. Although it is generally accepted that the trading of blades preceded the trading of cores by almost 1,000 years, little is know about the structure of blade trading during the Early and Middle Formative pe…
Intermittent Domestic Lapidary Production during the Late Formative Period at Nativitas, Tlaxcala, Mexico
The El Gigante Rockshelter
La cueva de El Gigante en las tierras altas de Honduras fue ocupada tan temprano como 10,000 años a.P. y da información previamente desconocida sobre la prehistoria de Honduras. Las condiciones climáticas secas resultan en una excelente preservación de esta área residencial. Las excavaciones documentaron una clara secuencia de ocho estratos culturales bien definidos que contienen hogares, así como depósitos densos de lítica, y restos microbotánic…
Excavation of an Obsidian Craft Workshop at Teotihuacan, Mexico
The original research by the Teotihuacan Mapping Project (TMP) identified a large number of obsidian workshops within Teotihuacan based on surface concentrations of production debris. Clark (1986b) questioned the validity of these identifications and called for subsurface excavation to confirm the presence of in situ workshop locales. This article summarizes the results from the excavation of one of the obsidian workshops identified in the Tlajin…
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