La navegacion lacustre : un rasgo cultural primordial de los mexicas

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Navigation et installations lacustres sur les Hautes Terres du Mexique: les cas Mexica et Tarasque

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Native navigation traditions in Mexico Central Plateau: a study between archaeology and ethnology.

International audience"In the Americas, long before the Conquest, existed various native navigation techniques (coastal, lacustrine and fluvial), aboard numerous and diversified wooden boats. Among these, stands one that was made by carving a tree trunk: the dugout canoe. As an evidence of human ingenuity, it acquired its importance by being the bridge between land and water, representing the bond between the human and the aquatic world. Similarly, this means of transportation played a primordial part in the native civilizations as it was involved in daily activities at different levels: transportation (people, goods, raw material), natural resource exploitation (hunting, gathering and fishing), rituals and war. These activities implied the organization of the lacustrine areas, thanks to adapted facilities such as channels, piers, bridges and warehouses. In Mexico’s Central Plateau, in the endoreic basins of Mexico and Pátzcuaro, flourished two of the most powerful contemporaneous and rival empires in all Mesoamerica: the Mexica and the Tarascan (Fig.1). Based on their respective lacustrine surroundings and specific methods, they accomplished the edification of their capitals, Tenochtitlan and Tzintzuntzan, through the use of navigation. Nowadays, some remains of these antique and powerful civilizations naval technology still exists, allowing us, thanks to a multidisciplinary method, to approach a broad vision of their history and transformation. " (source éditeur

Tradición de navegación indígena en Mesoamérica: los casos lacutres mexica y tarasco

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Indigenous Navigation in the Caribbean Basin: a Historical, Ethnoarchaeological and Experimental Approach to the Caribbean-Guyanese Kanawa

International audienceThe early human occupation of the Antilles was based on the manufacture and use of expanded and extended dugout canoes named kanawa. The same boat type is also associated with the Carib linguistic family groups precolonial expansion along the coasts from Brazil to Venezuela. This paper describes this type of boat and its construction process in a comparative approach to archaeological and ethnohistorical data related to the Antillean archipelago and an ethnoarchaeological study of the contemporary construction process of the kanawa by the Kali'na Amerindians of Guiana (French Guiana/Suriname). Lastly, an experimental maritime archaeology programme carried out in the Antilles over several years allows us to discuss the nature of navigation permitted by this type of boat

Quelle importance avait la navigation ?

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La Venise du Nouveau Monde (série Past and Curious)

Découvrez la capitale aztèque, Tenochtitlan, et parcourez ses canaux jusqu'au Templo Mayor