Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan: A Modern Paleodemographic Synthesis

Preface

VIll Tables and Figures 5-3 Summary Ages of Adult Individuals among Tlajinga 33 Burials 124 5-4 Complete Age Breakdown for Tlajinga 33 Skeletons 132 5-5 General Age Composition of Tlajinga 33 and Other Skeletal Populations 134 5-6 Secondary-Context Versus Grave-Context Individuals by Age 135 6-1 Stationary-Population Life Table for All Residents of Tlajinga 33 157 6-2 Age Distribution of Tlajinga 33 Individuals by Sex and Period 168 6-3 Stationary-Population Life Table for Tlajinga 33, Adjusted for Migration 170 6-4 Old-Age Corrected Stationary-Population Life Table for Tlajinga 33 171 6-5 Tlajinga 33 Stationary-Population Life Table, Early Period 184 6-6 Tlajinga 33 Stationary-Population Life Table, Late Period 185 6-7 Migration-Corrected Age Distributions of Deaths by Periods 186 7-1 Iron Content of the Pre-Columbian Diet 201 7-2 The Incidence of Transverse Lines by Age 207 7-3 The Age of Occurrence of Hypoplasias in the Permanent Dentition in Tlajinga 33 213 7-4 The Age of Occurrence of Hypoplasias in Deciduous Dentition in Tlajinga 33 217 7-5 Cortical Thickness in Tlajinga 33 and Dallas Population Adults 222 Tables and Figures IX 7-6 Average Long-Bone Lengths by Age at Tlajinga 33 225 7-7 Long-Bone Ages for Perinatals in Tlajinga 33 and the Arikara 229 7-8 Tlajinga 33 Perinatal Burials: Aging by Dentition and Long Bones 230 8-1 Best-Fitting Model Tables with the Tlajinga 33 Untransformed Age Distribution 243 8-2 Best-Fitting Model Tables with Tlajinga Old-AgeCorrected Age Distribution 245 8-3 Best-Fitting Model Tables with Tlajinga MigrationCorrected Age Distribution 250 Figures 2-1 Mexico, Showing Location of Teotihuacan 28 2-2 Ancient Teotihuacan by the Teotihuacan Mapping Project 31 3-1 The Location of Tlajinga 33 49 3-2 The Excavated Architecture of the Tlajinga 33 Compound 53 3-3 The Tlajinga 33 Compound in the Early Tlamimilolpa Phase 55 3-4 The Main Courtyard of the Early Tlamimilolpa Phase 56 3-5 The Tlajinga Compound in the Late Tlamimilolpa-Early Xolalpan Phase 59 3-6 The Tlajinga 33 Compound in the Late Xolalpan-Metepec Phase 63 3-7 The Altar, Shaft Tomb Entrance, and Temple of the Late Xolalpan Courtyard 64 4-1 The Offering Accompanying the Burial 25 Female 89 x Tables and Figures 4-2 A Perinatal Burial in a Vessel 94 4-3 Part of the Shell Headdress on the Skull of Burial 57 98 4-4 A Flexed Burial with No Offerings, from the Late Xolalpan 99 5-1 Sex Classifications Based on DiscriminantFunction Scores of Two Tibial Measures 112 6-1 Model Migration Curve by Age of Migrant 164 6-2 Survivorship of the Three Stationary-Population Life Tables for Tlajinga 33 173 6-3 Probability of Dying for the Three StationaryPopulation Life Tables for Tlajinga 33 173 6-4 Fertility Ratios of Tlajinga 33 and Three Illinois Skeletal Populations 175 6-5 Juvenile Mortality Ratios of Tlajinga 33 and Three Illinois Skeletal Populations 177 6-6 Proportions of Deaths in Six Age Categories in Tlajinga 33 and Two Reference Anthropological Populations 178 6-7 Proportions of Deaths in Six Age Categories in Tlajinga 33, the Oneota Skeletal Population, and Libben 179 6-8 Fertility Ratios in Two Tlajinga 33 Chronological Periods and Three Illinois Skeletal Populations 187 6-9 Juvenile Mortality Ratios in Tlajinga 33 Chronological Periods and Three Illinois Skeletal Populations 188 6-10 Proportions of Deaths in Six Age Categories in Tlajinga 33 Chronological Periods and Three Reference Anthropological Populations 189 6-11 Proportions of Deaths in Six Age Categories in Tlajinga 33, the !Kung, Oneota, and Libben Populations 190 Tables and Figures xi 7-1 Unremodeled Porotic Hyperostosis on the Parietals of a Nine-Year-Old Child from Tlajinga 33 199 7-2 Unremodeled Periosteal Lesion on the Metatarsal of Burial 57 202 7-3 Chronological Values for Hypoplastic Formation of Tlajinga 33 Permanent Dentitions 211 7-4 Systemic Growth Disruption Visible as Hypoplasia 214 7-5 Transverse Lines and Perlnanent-Dentition Hypoplasias in the Tlajinga 33 and Dickson Mounds Populations 219 7-6 Growth Curves for Femurs of Three Populations 226 7-7 Actual and Theoretical Predicted Lengths of Femurs during Growth 232 7-8 Actual and Theoretical Predicted Lengths of Tibias during Growth 233 8-1 The Cumulative Proportions of Ages at Death in the Tlajinga...