Civic and household community relationships at teotihuacan, Mexico: A space syntax approach

Shawn G. Morton, Meaghan A. Peuramaki-Brown, Peter C. Dawson, Jeffrey D. Seibert

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Abstract

It is held that the study of complex societies can effectively focus on the human interactions that define communities. Given the operational primacy of architectural survey in archaeological investigations, with some prominent exceptions, it is surprising how little attention has been paid to how communities of varying scales can actually be identified using these data sets. This article weds a modified version of Yaeger and Canuto's (2000) interactional approach to community identity with a materialist (empirical) body of method-theory known as space syntax in a discussion of community structure and systems of authority represented in the architectural structures and spaces of epicentral Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)387-400
Number of pages14
JournalCambridge Archaeological Journal
Volume22
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct. 2012

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