Redefining the Epiclassic Period in Mesoamerica

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introducing the Copenhagen Roundtable on the Epiclassic Period in Mesoamerica – Claudia I. Alvarado León and Christophe Helmke

Chapter 1: Disentangling the Epiclassic – Claudia I. Alvarado León

Chapter 2: Closing a Cycle: Rethinking the Epiclassic for Teotihuacan – Natalia Moragas Segura

Chapter 3: Diverse Approaches to the post-Teotihuacan World: The Epiclassic in the Toluca Valley, Central Mexican Highlands – Yoko Sugiura and Rubén Nieto Hernández

Chapter 4: New Approaches to the Epiclassic Period in the Tula Region, Mexico – Patricia Fournier G. and Fermín Sánchez-Aldana

Chapter 5: Conflict and Community during the Epiclassic Period in the Basin of Mexico and Southern Mezquital Valley – Christopher Morehart

Chapter 6: The Epiclassic in the San Juan River Region, Queretaro, Mexico: A Kaleidoscope of Possibilities – Fiorella Fenoglio Limón

Chapter 7: Epiclassic in South Central Michoacan – José Luis Punzo Díaz

Chapter 8: The Monumental Architecture of Rincón de Las Flores (Zacapu, Michoacan) in the Context of the Epiclassic Period in West-Central and Central Mexico – Grégory Pereira

Chapter 9: The Linguistic Panorama of the Epiclassic: Placing Nahuan among the Languages of Western Mesoamerica – Magnus Pharao Hansen

Chapter 10: The Identification of Exogenous Models in the Visual Culture of the Central Highlands: Approaches to Emulation Processes in the Figurative Systems of Cacaxtla-Xochitecatl and Xochicalco – Juliette Testard

Chapter 11: From the East: Reflections on the Nature, Origin and Timing of Maya Traits at Central Mexican Epiclassic Sites

Christophe Helmke, Jesper Nielsen, Claudia I. Alvarado León and Silvia Garza Tarazona

Chapter 12: Redefining the Epiclassic: Synthesis, Summary and Future Prospects – C. I. Alvarado León, F. Fenoglio Limón, C. Helmke, C. Morehart, M. Pharao Hansen and J. Testard

Resúmenes

Author Biographies

About the Author

Claudia I. Alvarado León obtained her PhD in Mesoamerican Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen in the Central Mexican Writing Systems and Calendars project. With over fifteen years as researcher in the Xochicalco project, she focuses on socio-political development processes and their impact on the built environment. Currently, she teaches at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia and El Colegio de Morelos.

Christophe Helmke is Associate Professor of American Indian Languages and Cultures at the Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 1996, he has participated in and led excavations, archaeological reconnaissance and epigraphic documentation at a variety of sites in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico. Between 2019 and 2024 he served as co-Principal Investigator of the Central Mexican Writing Systems and Calendars project, funded by the Velux Foundations.