The Origin of Avian-Serpent Imagery at Teotihuacan and Symbolic Interaction With Jaguar Iconography in Mesoamerica
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Erik Otárola-Castillo is an archaeologist, human evolutionary biologist, and biostatistician. His specialties include evolution, ecology, and diversity of behavior in prehistoric and modern populations of hunter-gatherers, as well as the effects that climatic change, variation of food availability, and-distribution had on the diet of some of the first North American native populations. Dr. Otárola-Castillo directs the Laboratory for Computational Anthropology and Anthroinformatics (LCA). Kathryn Math is a graduating senior from the departments of anthropology and art history. Her focus is the intersection of mythology, art, society, and identity. She will be continuing her graduate studies in art history at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. FANG AND FEATHER: The Origin of Avian-Serpent Imagery at Teotihuacan and Symbolic Interaction With Jaguar Iconography in Mesoamerica
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تاریخ انتشار 2017