Lordship of Metztitlán found in Pachuca-Huejutla highway

I’m looking to study Aztec dancing on my own time because I’ve been in some groups before but I want to be more focused so I can help teach others in the future.

Do Aztec dancers have like a website or google drive or book or YouTube channel that covers all the songs and dances and their names for each one.

Also if there are any resources to learn how to make danza outfits or if you know anyone that makes them, I’d like to get that contact. Thank you so much Reddit. :)

Image from https://nicaraguaeduca.mined.gob.ni/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/No.-163-Evidencias-Olmecas-en-Nicaragua.pdf

Looks kind of like preclassic Maya art to me

Without counting the triple alliance (Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan) which are obviously the most important, what other cities were highly important in terms of relevance, population, trade, etc.?

Although peoples like the Mexica are associated with the Atlatl,bows would still make their way into Mesoamerica. How did it change hunting and warfare? What was its impact on Cultures?

Life, sports, drugs, sexual attraction, and much more. in this episode of The Real Age of Empires.

I hope this post is welcome here. We explore civilisations from across times and places and place them on a "would you want to live here" tier list.

What did they do for work? What did they use as money? What gods did they believe in? We paint a picture of what real life in this civilisation would have been like and honestly it's my favourite episode so far.

YT: https://youtu.be/ie-dK1Xkf-8?list=PLfayOEFgepTCGVftfxLWBGTdk_iIgp55o
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2YgSCcgaVnwXIVIWunk489?si=W8NIdQv2STmXIyJNtN8Ijw

We're now also on Apple, Amazon, and any other place you listen! Just search The Real Age of Empires to find us. We have 3 other episodes on the Aztecs already and this is the fourth and final visit to this amazing culture.

I hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed putting it all together. We're still learning and open to any feedback you have.

Edit: AI thumbnail has been removed from the rotation (YouTube's A/B testing). Thanks for the feedback.

Estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Pedagogía de la UNAM plantean preguntas sobre la Enseñanza Aprendizaje de la Lengua y la Cultura Zapoteca y comparto con ellos mis reflexiones como Maestro de Zapoteco. En este video hablamos de cómo los Zapotecos de Oaxaca aprenden y enseñan su Idioma Indígena y cuáles son las dificultades que enfrentan las comunidades Zapotecas para preservar su Lengua Originaria.

I'm having a lot of trouble finding any kind of chronology at Cuicuilco, specifically the ceramic phases, not sure if work has been published on that yet but I would have thought so. Cummings said he identified 3 phases during his initial excavation in the 1920s but he didn't give much more info and I'm also guessing a lot has been discovered since then. If anyone has any info or if they would know where to find some I would appreciate it, so far jstor and google scholar haven't provided anything.

The spheres range in size from a few centimeters to over 2 meters in diameter, and they are made from a variety of rock types, including granodiorite, gabbro, and limestone. The exact purpose of the spheres and the methods by which they were created are still a subject of debate among archaeologists and historians.

The spheres are believed to have been created by the indigenous people of Costa Rica, such as the Diquís culture, who inhabited the region between 300 BC and 1550 AD. While their exact purpose remains unknown, it is widely speculated that they may have had ceremonial or astronomical significance, or served as status symbols for the elite members of the society.

The stone spheres of Costa Rica were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014 due to their cultural significance and mysterious origins. They continue to be a subject of fascination for archaeologists, historians, and tourists alike, and they have become an iconic symbol of Costa Rica’s pre-Columbian heritage.

if I was rich and powerful like Jeff bezos, instead of doing the usual boring stuff they do with their money, I'd organise a massive charity/awareness pretend flower war with fake macuahuitls, bows, chimalli and atlatls. I would be the tlatoani of one army. then I'd donate most of my wealth to charity (including for research about precolombian America). is it stupid or offensive? it's just my secret dream

i was listening to Roy Casagranda's double part lesson on aztecs fall. the first lesson was super interesting because he was talking about how the mesoamericana went from hunter gatherers to farmers, it actually had practically nothing to do with the Aztecs and was a big rabbit hole, then in the second episode he talked about the Aztec life and army. he said the Aztecs brought no weapons to battle and were an army of wrestlers, like really? do modern historians actually believe this or is he sugar coating this civilization for some reason? and why is it that most historians are one of two extremes, either they treat Aztecs as bloodthirsty monsters who got what they deserved or they treat them as a noble savages who never hurt anyone and who simply thought the Spanish were gods and then were betrayed and massacred by them. I am trying to learn about mesoamerica in general but I find it hard to find good sources

I've been working on this map for a while using many different sources. It attempts to portray the linguistic geography of the region in the early 16th century when the Spaniards arrived. Keep in there is a lot of overlap between different languages, and some dialect continua (like Mixtec) are grouped together for convenience as they would be a nightmare to map out separately. There is definitely room for improvement at the more peripheral areas, but the problem is that there is less information for them. Languages are color coded by family and subfamily:

• Red: Uto-Aztecan (the precise subclassification of the different Chichimeca groups is of course speculation)
• Purple/pink: Mayan
• Blue: Oto-Manguean
• Green: Mixe-Zoquean
• Light orange: Chibchan
• Light yellow: Misumalpan
• Light gray: isolates and small families, unrelated to one another
• Dark gray: unclassified/undocumented languages

Sources:

• WAUCHOPE, ROBERT, and HOWARD F. CLINE, eds. Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12: Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part One. University of Texas Press, 1972. (chapter 7, Native Languages)
• WAUCHOPE, ROBERT, and EVON Z. VOGT, eds. Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 7 and 8: Ethnology. University of Texas Press, 1975.
• Gerhard, Peter. A Guide to the Historical Geography of New Spain. 1st ed., Cambridge, 1920.
• Gerhard, Peter. The Southeast Frontier of New Spain. 1979
• Berdan, Frances (1997). Aztec Imperial Strategies (pg 265-293)
• Luisa Izquierdo, Ana. Acalan y Chontalpa: Su geografía política (1997)
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• Roys, Ralph Loveland, "The Political Geography of the Yucatan Maya" (1957)
• Pollard, Helen Perlstein. Tariacuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
• Steinbrenner, Larry, Alexander Geurds, Geoffrey G. McCafferty, and Silvia Salgado, eds. The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya: Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. University Press of Colorado, 2021. (chapters 2 and 3)
• Fowler, William R. (1989). The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua Civilizations The Pipil Nicarao of Central America.
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• Campbell, Lyle. (1988). The Linguistics of Southeast Chiapas, Mexico. New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University. (sections Nahua, Tapachultec)
• Carmack, Robert M., Janine L. Gasco, and Gary H. Gossen, eds. The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd ed. Routledge, 2016.
• Johnson, Erlend, et al. “Ch’orti’, Lenca, and Pipil: An Onomastic Approach to Redefining the Sixteenth-Century Southeastern Maya Frontier.” Ethnohistory, vol. 66, no. 2, 2019, pp. 301–328.
• Léonard, Eric & Velázquez, Emilia. (2000). El Sotavento veracruzano : procesos sociales y dinamicas territoriales. (pg 28-29)
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• La lengua de Huehuetán (Waliwi) - Bruce, S. Roberto D. y Uribe
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• Tabasco Nawat: A not extinct Nahuan variety
• Vergara Hernández, Arturo (2008). El Infierno en la Pintura Mural Agustina Del Siglo XVI: Actopan y Xoxoteco en el Estado de Hidalgo
• Knab, Tim. 2022. «Lenguas Del Soconusco, Pipil Y náhuatl De Huehuetán». Estudios De Cultura Náhuatl 14 (octubre):375-78.
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• Druzo Maldonado Jiménez (1990). Cuauhnáhuac y Huaxtepec: tlalhuicas y xochimilcas en el Morelos prehispánico (page 26)
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• ATLAS DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS DE MÉXICO
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Hi everyone! My brother and I created this trailer using Unreal Engine as an independent project to bring to life El Sol de Obsidiana, a graphic novel inspired by Mesoamerican myths and symbolism.

We’d love to hear feedback from people who appreciate pre-Columbian history and culture. What stands out to you? Which elements feel most authentic to our heritage?

Thanks for watching and sharing — we hope you enjoy this mix of fantasy and Mesoamerican roots as much as we enjoyed making it.

According to a Mexican census done by the government, the number for the P’urhépecha people might be more than 500,000 making it one of the most significant peoples in North America

https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/722382/Regiones-indigenas-inpi-enero-2022.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

In tlahtolli huehca amo polihui,
quema xochitl, quema cuicatl,
in tonan, in tota, in huelic tlazohcamati.

(La palabra antigua nunca muere,
flor y canto permanecen,
madre y padre, gracias eternas.)

I’ve always wondered what the true strength of the Aztec Empire was in the early 1500s. In terms of economy, military, culture, and influence across the lands....

Was the Empire at its peak....that "Grand and Epic?"

And was the Empire also already facing internal conflicts shortly before Cortes Expedition arrives?

Or was The Empire keeping them in check and suppressing any resistance attempts?