Individual Level Abstracts_FINAL 2019

Aguilar, Fernando (POSGRADO EN ARQUEOLOGÍA/ENAH) [307] Archaeological Survey in Delimited Units: The Altépetl of Ixmiquilpan in the Sixteenth Century Archaeological surveys at a regional scale have faced the dilemma of concordance between the archaeological sampling units, normally defined by physiographic elements of the landscape, and the use of significant components of the studied societies, f. [...] We examine these developments in the context of relations and contacts between the bearers of the region’s “Virgin Branch” archaeological culture and those of the Kayenta and other Ancestral Pueblo branches located to the east. [...] By comparing the variability, spatial distribution and temporal shifts in a set of imperial centers of the Collasuyu quarter, the goal of this presentation is to discuss the different ways in which indigenous populations were integrated into the state, and the role that imperial emissaries had in implementing a set of imperial institutions and practices. [...] By using ethnohistoric and archaeologic information, the results will reveal the complexity of these relations, the different orientation and nature of commensalism celebrated in these state installations, and the varying ways in which competing royal families and Inkas-by- privilege implemented and interpreted the imperial agenda. [...] In light of this observation, we revisit the general assumption of the domestication bottleneck concept in our current understanding of the evolutionary process of domestication, and consider the implications of localized versus landscape scale models of agricultural origins.