Dating Results From Excavations in Quarry Tunnels Behind the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan

Manzanilla, Linda; López, Claudia Orantes; Freter, AnnCorinne

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“…Epiclassic, Coyotlatelco pottery at Teotihuacan is widely distributed, (Crider et al 2007, p. 126;Gamboa 1999;Gómez and Cabrera 2006;Manzanilla 2005b;Manzanilla et al 1996;Moragas 1998Moragas , 1999Ortega 2005). We do not have an adequate understanding of this phase of Teotihuacan's history.…”

Section: Epiclassic (Ad 600/650-900)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…89-90). People at the Postclassic Otomí capital of Xaltocan, in the northwestern Basin of Mexico, collected and curated Early Classic figurines from Teotihuacan, as did people at Postclassic Teotihuacan (Brumfiel 2005;Manzanilla et al 1996;Overholtzer and Stoner 2011). Although a rejection of Teotihuacan state symbols followed the destruction of the Early Classic city, later peoples, from commoners to rulers, sought historical connections with Teotihuacan giving rise to antiquarianism.…”

Section: Aztec Teotihuacan: Altepetl and Townmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Teotihuacan

Nichols

2015

J Archaeol Res

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Teotihuacan in the northeastern Basin of Mexico was an unusually large and influential early city and state. This article reviews recent research trends in Teotihuacan from its founding and explosive growth ca. 100 BC into the largest city in Mesoamerica. Biogenetics provide details of how immigration fueled the city's growth and shaped its multiethnic composition and link Teotihuacan to other parts of the central highlands and more distant regions. Urban theory highlights the importance of neighborhoods and how their composition changed. Collective aspects of irrigation, markets, warfare and the military, and ideology encouraged the development of Teotihuacan's corporate governance. Although Teotihuacan politically dominated central Mexico, its control over the regional economy was not as centralized. Beyond its hinterland, Teotihuacan's foreign relations were a mosaic of trade diasporas, diplomatic exchanges, pilgrimages, emulation, and strategic direct interventions of limited duration. As its foreign influence retracted, Teotihuacan faced challenges from its hinterlands and intermediate elites and factions that culminated in the burning and desecration of the urban center. The Epiclassic saw the change from Teotihuacan's regional state to city-states and confederations. Although much reduced in size, Postclassic Teotihuacan retained an enormous legacy that subsequent states sought for their historical validation.

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Section: Epiclassic (Ad 600/650-900)mentioning

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Section: Aztec Teotihuacan: Altepetl and Townmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teotihuacan

Nichols

2015

J Archaeol Res

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“…4 reflects the apparent consensus, noted by Parsons and Gorenflo (in press), that Aztec II dates to c. A.D. 1200-1350. Some 32 recently obtained radiocarbon dates from Aztec II and mixed Aztec I/II contexts at ten different sites in the Basin of Mexico generally range between A.D. 1150 and 1400 (García Chávez 2004, tabla 3.5;Manzanilla et al 1996;Nichols and Charlton 1996;Parsons et al 1996). In fact, however, the majority cluster in the late 13th to the early 15th century, leading some authors to suggest a redating of Aztec II in the basin to as late as A.D. 1300-1450 (García Chávez 2004, fig.…”

Section: Fuego Phasementioning

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The Archaeology of Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico

Healan

2011

J Archaeol Res

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The site of Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, is well known for its distinctive architecture and sculpture that came to light in excavations initiated some 70 years ago. Less well known is the extensive corpus of archaeological research conducted over the past several decades, revealing a city that at its height covered an area of c. 16 km 2 and incorporated a remarkably diverse landscape of hills, plains, alluvial valleys, and marsh. Its dense, urban character is evident in excavations at over 22 localities that uncovered complex arrangements of residential compounds whose nondurable architecture left relatively few surface traces. Evidence of craft production includes lithic and ceramic production loci in specific sectors of the ancient city. Tula possessed a large and densely settled hinterland that apparently encompassed the surrounding region, including most of the Basin of Mexico, and its area of direct influence appears to have extended to the north as far as San Luís Potosí. Tula is believed to have originated as the center of a regional state that consolidated various Coyotlatelco polities and probably remnants of a previous Teotihuacancontrolled settlement system. Its pre-Aztec history exhibits notable continuity in settlement, ceramics, and monumental art and architecture. The nature of the subsequent Aztec occupation supports ethnohistorical and other archaeological evidence that Tula's ruins were what the Aztecs called Tollan.

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“…Although there are dates reported by Healan (1989:164) from Tula and by Manzanilla et al (1996) from recent excavations at Teotihuacan, there are no published independent absolute age determinations available for early Postclassic ceramic complexes from rural sites. Evans and Freter (1989Freter ( , 1996, however, have undertaken hydration analysis of obsidian artifacts from excavations at the Aztec site of Cihuatecpan in the Teotihuacan Valley.…”

Section: Postclassic Ceramic Chronologymentioning

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The Postclassic Occupation at Otumba

Nichols

Charlton

1996

Ancient Mesoam

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The Aztec city-state of Otumba is the focus of a long-term project of archaeological investigation. Analysis of surface and excavated ceramics and obsidian-hydration dates for the capital—Otumba—indicate a dispersed Mazapan occupation, a scattered early Aztec (Aztec II) occupation, and an intense Late Aztec (Aztec III) and Early Colonial (Aztec III/IV) occupation. In the paper we incorporate recent radiocarbon dates to refine the local late Postclassic chronology. A cluster of hydration dates suggests the early (Mazapan) occupation starts ca. a.d. 900. Aztec II ceramics, which are widely distributed in surface artifact collections, may begin as early as a.d. 1200 and continue until a.d. 1400, overlapping Aztec III ceramics, which we have dated from a.d. 1350 ± 50 to 1521 and later. Otumba continued to have a substantial occupation until ca. a.d. 1600/1620 in the early seventeenth century, when most of the Aztec town was abandoned.

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Dating Results From Excavations in Quarry Tunnels Behind the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan

Cited by 42 publications

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