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Description: Mexico, Tehuacan Valley, Coxcatlan Cave.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 9977
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico, Tehuacan Valley, Coxcatlan Cave. Excavation of the eastern end in progress.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 9978
Region: Middle America

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Description: Ajalpan, Mexico. Alternate squares expose strata.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 9979
Region: Middle America

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Description: Coxcatlan Cave, Mexico. Stratigraphy at east end.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 9980
Region: Middle America

Description: Painted gourd mask. Mexico. Alexander Collection
Holdings: 35mm slide: 10061
Region: Middle America

Description: Courtyard in Platform A with main Plaza beyond. (Original teaching slide code: RL-1)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20521
Region: Middle America

Description: Classic Maya site. Palaces are distinguished from temples by the holes drilled into the doorways to put up screens or curtains. (Original teaching slide code: RL-10)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20530
Region: Middle America

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Description: Pyramid construction in Mesoamerica: profiles through Mound A: top=side-to-side; bottom=front to back, showing superposition of temples (Original teaching slide code: RL-11)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20531
Region: Middle America

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Description: Pyramid construction in Mesoamerica. Plans of temples in Mound A, showing how temples were superimposed. Note tombs associated with different temples. (Original teaching slide code: RL-12)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20532
Region: Middle America

Description: State formation: Pyramid of the Sun seen from a platform near Pyramid of the Moon. (Original teaching slide code: RL-13)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20533
Region: Middle America

Description: Cult archaeology: Toltec capital, site in central Mexico; has raised platform with warrior carvings. (Original teaching slide code: RL-14)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20534
Region: Middle America

Description: Cult archaeology: columns supporting roof of Pyramid B represent warriors holding atlatls and bags of incense (not astronauts!). (Original teaching slide code: RL-15)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20535
Region: Middle America

Description: Cult archaeology: richly attired warrior figure over 3.5 m. high with rectangular earpieces, pectoral representing an upside-down bird, necklace, bracelets, etc. (Original teaching slide code: RL-16)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20536
Region: Middle America

Description: Aztec capital (Templo Mayor=main temple). Templo Mayor is in the middle of downtown Mexico City, right next to the main colonial Spanish cathedral (in background), which was built from stone ripped from Aztec structures (foreground). (Original teaching slide code: RL-17)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20537
Region: Middle America

Description: Aztec capital (Templo Mayor=main temple). The Templo Mayor was constructed of a long series of temples one on top of the other, this is view of bases of temples (the successive stairways). (Original teaching slide code: RL-18)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20538
Region: Middle America

Description: Aztec capital (Templo Mayor=main temple). The tops of all later temples are gone but the earliest temple, shown here, was found completely preserved. Note double temple on top of platform, one to each main deity. Statue in front -- reclining human - called a chacmool, may be location of sacrifice. (Original teaching slide code: RL-19)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20539
Region: Middle America

Description: State formation (500-200 BC): large wall of danzante carvings, were originally thought to be dancers, now considered evidence of personalized/chiefly warfare. (Original teaching slide code: RL-2)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20522
Region: Middle America

Description: State formation (500-200 BC): danzante carvings, note nakedness (a sign of humiliation), also closed eyes--this is a dead elite warrior. (Original teaching slide code: RL-3)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20523
Region: Middle America

Description: State expansion: danzante. Another dead warrior; note awkward position of hand and castration; note also that they are often named (glyphs on chest); in all there are 320 of these. (Original teaching slide code: RL-4)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20524
Region: Middle America

Description: State expansion: change in warfare as state becomes expansionistic. No more danzantes; now Conquest Glyphs on the strangely shaped Building 1 (center); there are 40 conquest glyphs. (Original teaching slide code: RL-5)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20525
Region: Middle America

Description: State expansion: conquest glyph; no longer are they advertising defeat of particular individuals, now they are advertising territorial conquests. The bird at the top is the place name; some have been linked to known sites outside the valley of Oaxaca. (Original teaching slide code: RL-6)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20526
Region: Middle America

Description: State expansion: conquest glyph. Note that the lower portion is the same, the hill glyph with diagonal lines; this indicates "place of"; the upper part is different in each cast, indicating the name of the particular place. (Original teaching slide code: RL-7)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20527
Region: Middle America

Description: Temple 2, note row of carved stelae in front. (Original teaching slide code: RL-8)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20528
Region: Middle America

Description: Classic Maya site, central acropolis. These seem to have been palaces. (Original teaching slide code: RL-9)
Holdings: 35mm slide: 20529
Region: Middle America

Description: Tula, Mexico. Facing South along edge of steep slopes at two miles North of main part of site.
Date of Photo: May 1966
Holdings: 35mm slide: 11262
Region: Middle America

Description: Tetitla; Teotihuacán, Mexico.
Date of Photo: Aug. 1966
Holdings: 35mm slide: 11269
Region: Middle America

Description: Tetitla; Teotihuacán, Mexico. Small altar in courtyard.
Date of Photo: Aug. 1966
Holdings: 35mm slide: 11270
Region: Middle America

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Description: National Museum of Mexico display of Classic Teotihuacán figurines. Photograph taken by Jeffrey R. Parsons.
Date of Photo: Aug. 1966
Holdings: 35mm slide: 11359
Region: Middle America

Description: Mexico, Tlatilco; Formative figurine with magnetite mirror.
Date of Photo: 1968
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12418
Region: Middle America

Description: Mexico, Tlatilco; Formative figurine with magnetite mirror.
Date of Photo: 1968
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12419
Region: Middle America

Description: Mexico, Tabasco and Veracruz (states), La Venta; Olmec jade figurine, painted red with magnetite mirror.
Date of Photo: 1968
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12420
Region: Middle America

Description: Mexico, Veracruz, La Venta; magnetite mirror from ceremonial cache.
Date of Photo: 1968
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12421
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Mitla, Oaxaca; adult female boll weevil discovered in archaeological cultivated cotton at 900 AD. Actual size = 7mm.
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12422
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Palace of Sun and Sun. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12932
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: mural zone 5-A, room 23, Cordera. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12933
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Palace of the Sun, diving figure polychrome. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12934
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Palace of the Sun, detail of 6a Knight's mural. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Aug. 26, 1968
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12935
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: street, southeast side of Palacio TRBS. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12936
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Yaya Huaca, west side of street. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12937
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Zachula street between Palace and Palios. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12938
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Yaya Huaca compound view to hill in distance. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12939
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: obsidian workshop. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12940
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Teo 5; general view, looking east, workshop to right. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12941
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Teo Moon plaza. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12942
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Teo Sun plaza. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12943
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Sun with company. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12944
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Teo from south hill. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12945
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Temple of the Moon from Temple of the Sun, 10/11/68. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12946
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Street of the Dead, 1964. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12947
Region: Middle America

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Description: Mexico: Street of the Dead from the south, 1964. UMMA.
Date of Photo: Apr. 13, 1971
Holdings: 35mm slide: 12948
Region: Middle America

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