Teotihuacan and the Making of a World City

When:
Thursday, Mar 29, 2018 6:00p -
7:30p

Where:
Peabody Museum, Geological Lecture Hall
24 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, University

Event website:
https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Teotihuacan-and-the-Making-of-a-World-City

In the first century CE, Teotihuacan became the capital of the area known today as Central Mexico. The city grew to include 100,000 people, drawing immigrants from Western Mexico, the Valley of Oaxaca, Veracruz, and the Maya region. In this free, public lecture presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Deborah Nichols, William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Latin America, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College, will discuss how Teotihuacan became the largest and most influential city in Mexico and Central America; how it maintained this position for 500 years through diplomacy, pilgrimages, military incursions, and commerce; why modern scholars consider it a “world city”; and what challenges exist in advancing an understanding of its legacy.

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