As part of the Institute for Historical Studies’ “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented” series for the 2020-2021 academic year, Not Even Past will be publishing a weekly blog organized around the speakers who will present across the year and key topics in Climate History. Dr. Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University delivered the […]
The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico by Enrique Rodríguez Alegría (2016)
In this study of the social significance of material culture in Mexico City and Xaltocan in the early colonial period, Rodriguez Alegría uses a variety of sources, including archaeological evidence relating to food consumption, catalogues of ceramic sherds from several dig sites in these cities, and wills, stock lists, and auction records. His use of […]