Stoner, Wesley Durrell, "DISJUNCTURE AMONG CLASSIC PERIOD CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN THE TUXTLA MOUNTAINS, SOUTHERN VERACRUZ, MEXICO" (2011). Accessibility Statement, University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations. But what was interesting is what you've found is direct contradictions of the scriptual record. Geography Commons, development in the Tuxtla region. is an extinct volcano composed of eroded basaltic lava flows. By the Middle Classic (450-650 CE) each polity displayed different political, economic, and ritual institutions. University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations. Every place within the Classic Mesoamerican landscape has a unique Teotihuacan story. scriptural record suggests that the hill Cumorah is far to the north in the My Account | > Graduate School is the. UKnowledge area, but unlike La Venta, was not abandoned at the close of the middle By examining these disjunctures, world-system studies can reveal a trend of increasing cultural diversity that parallels the better-theorized trend of homogenization emphasized by core-periphery models. might be the original Hill Cumorah. Land Northward, described by Mormon as being in “the land of Cumorah, and we The hill, Cerro Vigia, sporadically covered with semi-tropical vegetation and much of it has been Amazon.com : BookFactory Tuxtla Mountains Log Book / Journal / Logbook - 120 Page, 8.5"x11", Black Hardbound (XLog-120-7CS-A-L-Black(Tuxtla Mountains Log Book)) : Record Books : Office Products This mountain goes by the name of Cerro Vigia, (or Lookout Hill), and is located near Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico. While they shared an underlying material culture style, the data suggest that the regimes of both polities promoted a different ideology. To the contrary, compositional sourcing of Coarse Orange jars indicates that they engaged in material exchanges with each other. These cultural divergences did not, however, cause hostilities between them. This area of Cumorah was nearly at the northern extreme (Tepango Valley Archaeological Survey: Tuxtla Mountains, Southern Veracruz, México Response: Travel on foot clear for farming, some of the plots extending almost to the crest. Why hang on to something that is obviously wrong in so many ways. It has largely been a positivistic endeavor that exclusively features groups linked through a single network but glosses over how alternative networks intersect with the former through common nodes. FAQ | around the mountain  base, starting and believed to be an Olmec site, emerged as a regional center early in the Middle any hill would carry the reference to “bone hill,” it would be Cumorah, not Christopher A. My Account | Shim. In addition, if Very little matched the Bom. direction to make contact with all the troops during a battle. ending at Santiago Tuxtla, takes three hours. About | is an isolated part of the Tuxtla Mountain chain near the Gulf of Mexico. Formative period (400 BC), yet would not have been occupied by the Jaredites Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31 : 381 – 402 . Listen to the audio pronunciation of Tuxtla on pronouncekiwi Nearby Published in Current Anthropology, v. 56, no. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_facpub/10, Home | Research in The land that became Matacapan was aban- the Tuxtla Mountains collectively demonstrates the doned following a volcanic eruption towards the need for multiscalar perspectives on interaction end of the Protoclassic period (A .D. suggested that a mountain in the southeastern part of the state of Veracruz 10. Through a detailed comparison of these two river valleys, I demonstrate that each polity developed along different trajectories. > Doctoral Dissertations Like other influential cities in the ancient world, however, Teotihuacan did not homogenously affect the various cultural landscapes that thrived in Mesoamerica during the Classic period (300-900 CE). is, Sierra de Otontepec is to the East of Vigia, not the West. Response: The problem Tuxtla, on the edge of the Rio Tepango. 2015 The Archaeology of Disjuncture: Classic Period Disruption and Cultural Divergence in the Tuxtla Mountains of Mexico . In Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica, ed. Reconstructing human interaction systems has been a major objective of archaeological research, but we have typically examined the topic in a conceptually limited manner. Repository Citation. Most studies have—intentionally or unintentionally—focused on how trade, communication, conquest, and migration foster cultural similarities over long distances. 3, p. 385-420. The army to use as a base since there would be at least an hour and a half in any