REVIEW: Made to Order: Painted Ceramics of Ancient Teotihuacan

[...]she also opines that Teotihuacan public religion revolved around deities who conferred benefits, such as fertility, on humans who received them with sacrifices in return. Whether one agrees with these ideas, all these suggestions are valuable, because they emerge from the detailed study of spec...

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Veröffentlicht in:Latin American antiquity 2019, Vol.30 (2), p.452-454
1. Verfasser: Pasztory, Esther
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:[...]she also opines that Teotihuacan public religion revolved around deities who conferred benefits, such as fertility, on humans who received them with sacrifices in return. Whether one agrees with these ideas, all these suggestions are valuable, because they emerge from the detailed study of specific objects and are the conclusions of a scholar who has long pondered them. (Murals were also found on the exterior of buildings, but were more perishable.) The about 2,500 masonry apartment compounds are a rare form of habitation in Mesoamerica and suggest a well-to do population.
ISSN:1045-6635
2325-5080
DOI:10.1017/laq.2019.34