Nahua-pipiles ritual landscapes of the post-classic in the Costa del Bálsamo, El Salvador

Authors

  • Marlon Vladimir Escamilla Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
  • William R. Fowler Universidad de Vanderbilt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/entorno.v0i53.6306

Keywords:

Archeology - El Salvador - History, Nahua-Pipil Archeology, Archaeological remains, Archaeological excavations, Ancient architecture.

Abstract

Ritual landscapes are formed by both physical and symbolic appropriation of a particular area during a specific time period. During Epiclassic (600-850 AD) and Postclassic (850-1524 AD) periods, the Nahua-Pipil staged a massive diasporic migration from central Mexico to the Central American Pacific coast. This article analyzes, from a landscape archeology perspective, recent discoveries of Postclassic archaeological sites registered in Balsam Coast, interpreting the particularly geomorphology as the ritual landscape desired by the Nahua-Pipil in order to evoke their deities and legitimize their own historical memory through cognitive constructs associated with their homeland.

Entorno, august 2013, issue 53: 67-75

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Author Biographies

Marlon Vladimir Escamilla, Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador

Doctor en Antropología de la Universidad de Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee. Actualmente es el coordinador de la Licenciatura en Arqueología de la UTEC

William R. Fowler, Universidad de Vanderbilt

Doctor en Antropología, y actualmente es profesor y catedrático de Antropología
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Published

2013-08-01

How to Cite

Escamilla, M. V., & Fowler, W. R. (2013). Nahua-pipiles ritual landscapes of the post-classic in the Costa del Bálsamo, El Salvador. Entorno, (53), 67–75. https://doi.org/10.5377/entorno.v0i53.6306

Issue

No. 53 (2013)

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Articles

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