Dissertation

Las narrativas precoloniales en el occidente de Oaxaca, México

Iconografía, epigrafía e historia en los monumentos arqueológicos

Author

A.I. Rivera Guzman

Date

20 September 2023

Links

The publication in Open Access

Throughout this study, we have explored the iconography and writing that the precolonial peoples of western Oaxaca, Mexico, mainly the Mixteca region, used between 400 years before Christ (BC) and 900 years after Christ (AD), that is, from the Middle Preclassic period (400 BC) to the end of the Classic period (900 AD), which corresponds to the first phase of urbanism in the Oaxaca region. Identifying the themes and narratives that are preserved in different archaeological monuments and deciphering their meaning through iconographic, epigraphic analysis, and documentation of their context, this study focuses on recognizing and interpreting the materialized memory of communities through archaeological objects. The purpose is to show how it is possible to reconstruct part of the ancient history of the communities in time, the life of its protagonists, the religious thought of the community, as well as the social and political environment in which they were formed.