essay
A Catalogue of carved monuments and a guide to the visual characteristics of Xochicalco's art style
xochicalco mapping project • 2 • Published In 2000 • Pages: 17-56
By: Smith, Virginia, Hirth, Kenn.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This catalog of the published and unpublished stone carvings located at Xochicalco before 1990 provides a general description of the carvings, identifies their original and present locations, and lists the primary published references for each work. Excavations in the upper ceremonial zone between 1993-1994 by the Proyecto Especial Xochicalco uncovered many additional reliefs, plaques, and sculptures. The addition of these recent finds at Xochicalco makes this the largest collection of carved stone monuments from Epiclassic contexts anywhere in the highlands (p. 17). The stone carvings listed here are grouped into four major classes: relief carvings, sculpture, boulder carvings, and plain monuments.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Visual arts
- Writing
- Lithic industries
- Writing
- Mnemonic devices
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Central Mexico Postclassic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1350-1100 BP (650-900 AD)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Xochicalco, Governador Phase, Western Morelos, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Virginia Smith and Kenneth G. Hirth
- For bibliographical references see document 31:Hirth
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99027545
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Xochicalco--Antiquities/Indians of Mexico--Urban residence--Mexico--Xochicalco/City planning--Mexico--Xochicalco--History/Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Xochicalco--Maps/Archaeological surveying--Mexico--Xochicalco--Maps/Xochicalco Site (Mexico)Xochicalco (Mexico)--Antiquities