
Albañiles invisibles. Una aproximación al estudio del patrón de fosas de La Ventilla, Teotihuacan
Author(s) -
Jaime Delgado Rubio
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
arqueología de la arquitectura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1989-5313
pISSN - 1695-2731
DOI - 10.3989/arq.arqt.2017.001
Subject(s) - humanities , art
This article was born with a desire, and talk about architecture of the ancient city of Teotihuacan (Mexico), without the guilds of stonemasons who made it possible and whose activities have not figured within the academic concerns of specialists and this pre-Columbian metropolis. Therefore, as part of archaeological explorations in the Teotihuacan neighborhood of La Ventilla and particularly the discovery of enigmatic patterns of pits on their floors, is that we do exercises of experimental archeology in order to approach some operations, techniques and engineering solutions that routinely performing these builders as part of their basic subsistence. An attempt to scale their technical relevance and social importance of these associations in the universe of ancient architecture