“…Our research is an attempt to piece together the history of a few square kilometers of farmland in central Mexico from the stratigraphic relationships of artifact and charcoal concentrations to colluvial, alluvial, and free‐fall volcanic sediments. We focused on such a small study area in order to integrate as fully as possible on‐ and off‐site research, and to ascertain whether reducing the scale of observation would nudge us away from any of the synthetic conclusions we had previously reached with respect to regional settlement and land use history (Borejsza, , ; Lesure et al., , ; Borejsza et al., ; Borejsza & Frederick, ; Borejsza, Frederick, & Lesure, ; Lesure, ). Tlaxcala, the region where the study area is located, attracts a substantial amount of scholarly attention, and our colleagues and predecessors have offered other, often conflicting syntheses grounded in archival research (Trautmann, ; Skopyk, ), archaeological settlement survey (Abascal, ; García & Merino, , ), soil mapping (Werner, ; Aliphat & Werner, ), and the examination of sedimentary sequences (Heine, , , , , ).…”