The "Great Goddess" of Teotihuacan: Fiction or reality?

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-15

  Paulinyi, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; ICONOGRAPHY; RESEARCH;

MEXICO [MEXICO (NTN)]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; TEOTIHUACAN;

EID: 33746079572     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: 14691787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536106060020     Document Type: Review

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