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The Lienzo Seler II was brought to the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin by the German scholar Eduard ... more The Lienzo Seler II was brought to the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin by the German scholar Eduard Seler at the end of the 19th century. It is a unique object of enormous cultural and historical value and is part of a group of documents from the Mixtec Region located in the northwestern part of the modern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Its size and depth of its historical record, going back to the 13th century, makes it one of the most complete documents in the ancient pictographic scripture known before the arrival of the Spanish at the beginning of the 16th century. The goal of this dissertation is to define the historical context in which the Lienzo Seler II was produced through the latest works on the Coixtlahuaca group of documents while considering the ethnohistorical, geographical, and archaeological data for its interpretation. The present work is divided in four general topics, beginning with Prehispanic Times, Geography, History and Iconography. On the first chapter, an analysis of the sociopolitical context during prehispanic times in Mesoamerica and the Mixtec area is made, a summary of archaeological research on the area and its relation to information recorded in nahua documents. Topics pertaining to Landscape, Monumentality, Cosmography and its relation to the actual topography is thematized under Geography. The History chapter defines the historical context in which the Lienzo was made along with an analysis on the social and territorial organization and its transformation over time. Iconography is the last chapter. Style, color, and space are themes under this chapter as well as an iconographic and iconological analysis of the document. Toponyms, glosses, anthroponyms, genealogies and the lines of the document are registered, contrasted, and analyzed. The ethnohistorical and archaeological information was complemented by field work, through the understanding and interpretation of the landscape by the modern inhabitants of the Coixtlahuaca Valley, the Lienzo begun to unravel its complexity and depth. This [...]

Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations, 2019

The Lienzo Seler II was brought to the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin by the German scholar Eduard ... more The Lienzo Seler II was brought to the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin by the German scholar Eduard Seler at the end of the 19th century. It is a unique object of enormous cultural and historical value and is part of a group of documents from the Mixtec Region located in the northwestern part of the modern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Its size and depth of its historical record, going back to the 13th century, makes it one of the most complete documents in the ancient pictographic scripture known before the arrival of the Spanish at the beginning of the 16th century. The goal of this dissertation is to define the historical context in which the Lienzo Seler II was produced through the latest works on the Coixtlahuaca group of documents while considering the ethnohistorical, geographical, and archaeological data for its interpretation. The present work is divided in four general topics, beginning with Prehispanic Times, Geography, History and Iconography. On the first chapter, an analysis of the sociopolitical context during prehispanic times in Mesoamerica and the Mixtec area is made, a summary of archaeological research on the area and its relation to information recorded in nahua documents. Topics pertaining to Landscape, Monumentality, Cosmography and its relation to the actual topography is thematized under Geography. The History chapter defines the historical context in which the Lienzo was made along with an analysis on the social and territorial organization and its transformation over time. Iconography is the last chapter. Style, color, and space are themes under this chapter as well as an iconographic and iconological analysis of the document. Toponyms, glosses, anthroponyms, genealogies and the lines of the document are registered, contrasted, and analyzed. The ethnohistorical and archaeological information was complemented by field work, through the understanding and interpretation of the landscape by the modern inhabitants of the Coixtlahuaca Valley, the Lienzo begun to unravel its complexity and depth. This [...]

Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations, 2019