Location
New York, New York
Date
16 Apr 2004, 8:00am - 9:30am
Abstract
In the archaeological region named Mesoamerica, there are cases of underground excavations for different purposes along several centuries. Some of them reach up to 9-meter depth and are in good conditions so there is motive enough to consider them as a historic case that must be analyzed in an Engineering point of view. From different cases, there were chosen two, Teotihuacan and Xochicalco, due to for these there are notorious relations between both sites, the most important is that these caverns were used as an astronomic observatory. In addition, for Xochicalco is possible to make analysis with the geometrical and geotechnical information in order to study the stability. This paper includes the main data, analyses and conclusions from engineering and archaeological topics; in fact conclusions must be applied for both disciplines.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
5th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2004 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Yanez, David and Morante, Ruben, "Caverns Stability with More Than 10 Centuries in Prehispanic Excavations in Mexico" (2004). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 17.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/5icchge/session06/17
Caverns Stability with More Than 10 Centuries in Prehispanic Excavations in Mexico
New York, New York
In the archaeological region named Mesoamerica, there are cases of underground excavations for different purposes along several centuries. Some of them reach up to 9-meter depth and are in good conditions so there is motive enough to consider them as a historic case that must be analyzed in an Engineering point of view. From different cases, there were chosen two, Teotihuacan and Xochicalco, due to for these there are notorious relations between both sites, the most important is that these caverns were used as an astronomic observatory. In addition, for Xochicalco is possible to make analysis with the geometrical and geotechnical information in order to study the stability. This paper includes the main data, analyses and conclusions from engineering and archaeological topics; in fact conclusions must be applied for both disciplines.
