The Past in the Past: The Power of Monuments in Ruin presented by Dr. Art Joyce
Eaton Humanities Room 250 Pleasant Street 1610, BoulderThis presentation examines two ruined monumental architectural complexes in prehispanic Oaxaca, Mexico: The Main Plaza of the mountaintop city of Monte Albán in the Valley of Oaxaca and the acropolis of Río Viejo on the coastal floodplain of the Lower Río Verde. Both complexes were built during the Formative period and became the ceremonial centers […]