Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective by Alan P. Sullivan Deborah Irene Olszewski

Author:Alan P. Sullivan, Deborah Irene Olszewski [Alan P. Sullivan, Deborah Irene Olszewski]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Archaeology
ISBN: 9781607324942
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2016-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

The Orthodox View of Aztalan

Aztalan provides a case example of the influential yet problematic legacy of nineteenth-century archaeological cartography. For instance, Samuel Barrett of the Milwaukee Public Museum approached his excavations at Aztalan with a focus on tracing the numerous walls that were visible to early nineteenth-century visitors to the site (figure 7.5). In his 1933 publication, Barrett forcefully argued that the walls were contemporaneous constructions, a claim that aligns with the timeless view presented in the maps of the site produced by Hyer and Lapham. The strongest evidence that Barrett called upon to support his contention of contemporaneity was that residential architecture had been found only in the excavation units placed within the innermost wall (but see Goldstein and Freeman 1997 for an alternative explanation of the concentration of residential architecture within the innermost wall).

Figure 7.5. Samuel Barrett’s map of Aztalan (Barrett 1933; reprinted with permission of the Milwaukee Public Museum).

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