![]() ![]() In a session he and Joyce are organizing at this week’s conference of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Portland, Oregon, researchers will share new findings and ideas about ruins’ roles in ancient Mesoamerican communities. But a growing number are now recognizing that for people in precolonial Mesoamerica, “ruins, ancient objects, and ancestors were active parts of their communities,” says Roberto Rosado-Ramirez, an archaeologist at Northwestern University. Once a site emptied out and started to crumble, archaeologists typically concluded its importance had faded for people in the past. Previous generations of researchers tended to treat the massive ruins that dot Mexico and Central America as “inconsequential” in the lives of the people who lived nearby in later periods, Joyce says. “These new rulers may have been trying to assert control over this thing that by its very existence would have questioned the inevitability and legitimacy of their power,” Joyce says. How would the new leaders manage the threat it posed?Īrthur Joyce, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado (CU), Boulder, has found they did so by putting their stamp on the ruins with a massive offering and portraits of themselves, set on top of the eroded surface of the old buildings. When that government collapsed, the temples and plazas had been ritually burned and left to decay, a reminder that hierarchical rulership had already failed once in Río Viejo. But they had one problem: the ruins of a complex of ceremonial buildings built by Río Viejo’s last centralized government centuries earlier. The new rulers aimed to step into that power vacuum. It was once the largest city in the region, but it had shrunk by half and lost its political authority. Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinksĭictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed.Around 500 C.E., a new government arose in the community now called Río Viejo, near the coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. This extract is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. Or Gareae, one of the ancient demi of Tegea, which may have been situated at the ![]() The Garates therefore anciently flowed into the katavothra at Persova without The katavothra at the Taki did not absorb quickly enough the waters of the marsh. ![]() The river was changed by a Turk, who acquired property in the neighbourhood, because There is a tradition among the peasants that the course of Hence it would seem that the Alpheius anciently flowed in a northĪ north-westerly direction, and entered the katavothra at the marsh of Taki, in Where, after joining the Eurotas, it sinks a second time into the earth, and againĪppears at Asea. § 2) that the Alpheiusĭescends into the earth in the Tegeatic plain, reappears near Asea (SW. Pausanias, on the other hand, says (viii. § 4), flows through the Corythic plain, and enters the katavothra at The plain, receives the river of Dhuliana (the ancient Garates, Garates, Paus. It now flows in a north-easterly direction through Phylace the Alpheius receives a stream composed of several mountain torrents atĪ place named Symbola (Sumbola) but upon entering the plain of Tegea its course Name, a fortified watch-tower for the protection of the pass. Krya Vrysis), one of the ancient demi of Tegea, and, as we may infer from its On the frontiers of Tegea and Sparta, at a place called Phylace (Phulake, near Is undoubtedly the Alpheius of Pausanias (viii. The chief river in the district is now called the Sarantapotamos, which ![]() Parthenium, and the latter is the marsh in the Manthyric plain. The former is situated in the Corythic plain above mentioned, at the foot The two most important are at the modern village of Persova and at the marsh of The plain of Tegea having no natural outlet for its waters is drainedīy natural chasms through the limestone mountains, called katavothra. Parthenium, and probably called theĬorythic plain, from Corytheis, one of the ancient demi of Tegea, which was situated is occupied by the mountains separating it fromĪrgolis and Sparta respectively, with the exception of a small plain running eastwardįrom the Tegeatic plain to the foot of Mt. Plain (Manthurikon pedion), from Manthyrea, one of the ancient demi of Tegea, of Tripolitza, and lying between Tegea and Pallantium: it was called the Manthyric There was a smaller plain, separated from the former by a low range of mountains Of considerable size, and is usually called the Tegeatic plain (Tegeatikon pedion). of the city, towards Mantineia, is a plain ![]()
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