Come join us at the Society for American Archaeology’s 2022 conference in Chicago, Illinois. Our team members have prepared the following presentations this year: SATURDAY, APRIL 2 SYMPOSIUM INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPLORATIONS OF URBANISM ,POLITY , AND DAILY L IFE IN TEOTIHUACAN AND BEYOND :S YMPOSIUM IN MEMORY OF GEORGE COWGILLRoom: Lake HuronTime: 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.Chairs: Nawa Sugiyama, Sarah Clayton and Saburo SugiyamaParticipants:9:00 Saburo Sugiyama, Nawa Sugiyama, Kazuhiro Sekiguchi and KuninoriIwashiro—A New Approach for the Cognition of Time, Space, andRulership in the Cosmic City of Teotihuacan9:15 Verónica Ortega Cabrera—Las ofrendas de la Plaza de la LunaTeotihuacán, evidencias del complejo ritual9:30 Emily McClung de Tapia and Laura Beramendi-Orosco—LandscapeFormation/Transformation in the…

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by Yolanda Peláez Castellanos Teotihuacan was one of the most influential cities in Mesoamerica, and descriptions of its grandeur during its occupation from around 100 BCE to 550 CE have been frequently mentioned in literature. At its height, the metropolis had between 75,000 to 125,000 inhabitants and extended over an area of some 20 km2 (7.72 mi2). The biggest building in the city, the Sun Pyramid, stands at 63 m (206.69 ft) tall with each of the four sides of…

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by Yolanda Peláez Castellanos Today, it is very easy to photograph and document the world around us. For example, people visiting Teotihuacan can take countless photos and share them on social media immediately; however, in the past, it was much harder to capture and reproduce images. The lithographs, paintings, and photographs from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century demonstrate the many changes that the archaeological zone of Teotihuacan has undergone. Most of the…

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