TY - JOUR
T1 - NEW RESEARCH at TEOTIHUACAN'S TLAJINGA DISTRICT, 2012-2015
AU - Carballo, David M.
AU - Hirth, Kenneth G.
AU - Hernández Sariñana, Daniela
AU - Buckley, Gina M.
AU - Mejía Ramón, Andrés G.
AU - Kennett, Douglas J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. BCS-1321247 (field and field laboratory) and BCS-1460367 (radiocarbon lab).We are grateful for it and for additional financial support offered by the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. We thank Pedro Cahuantzi Hernández for his assistance in artifact illustration, Clara Paz Bautista for her assistance with the shell identification from Feature 14, Brendan Culleton for his assistancewith AMS dates, Kiri Hagerman for her assistance with figurine chronology, and the community of San Pedro Tlajinga for their hospitality and assistance at the site.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Teotihuacan's Tlajinga district is a cluster of neighborhoods on the southern periphery of the city best known for earlier investigations at Compound 33:S3W1. New research includes excavations at two other apartment compounds and along the southern extension of the Street of the Dead. Excavation contexts, major finds, chronology, and preliminary interpretations are the subject of this article. We highlight evidence attesting to a major obsidian-blade workshop at Compound 17:S3E1, offerings, and other features at that compound and Compound 18:S3E1, and the tempo and processes of urbanization viewed through well-recorded stratigraphic sequences of the compounds and the Street of the Dead. We conclude that significant occupation began in the Miccaotli phase, but it was not until some point in the Early Tlamimilolpa phase that the dominant housing type became apartment compounds; the continuation of the axis of Street of the Dead in the district was accomplished by excavating in the volcanic tuft substrate (tepetate) and could have been undertaken by the inhabitants of the district themselves; and the presence of items such as a sculpted stone face, marine shell, and polychrome pottery demonstrates that commoners at Teotihuacan enjoyed some access to finer items within the interregional economy.
AB - Teotihuacan's Tlajinga district is a cluster of neighborhoods on the southern periphery of the city best known for earlier investigations at Compound 33:S3W1. New research includes excavations at two other apartment compounds and along the southern extension of the Street of the Dead. Excavation contexts, major finds, chronology, and preliminary interpretations are the subject of this article. We highlight evidence attesting to a major obsidian-blade workshop at Compound 17:S3E1, offerings, and other features at that compound and Compound 18:S3E1, and the tempo and processes of urbanization viewed through well-recorded stratigraphic sequences of the compounds and the Street of the Dead. We conclude that significant occupation began in the Miccaotli phase, but it was not until some point in the Early Tlamimilolpa phase that the dominant housing type became apartment compounds; the continuation of the axis of Street of the Dead in the district was accomplished by excavating in the volcanic tuft substrate (tepetate) and could have been undertaken by the inhabitants of the district themselves; and the presence of items such as a sculpted stone face, marine shell, and polychrome pottery demonstrates that commoners at Teotihuacan enjoyed some access to finer items within the interregional economy.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0956536118000159
DO - 10.1017/S0956536118000159
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85064868988
SN - 0956-5361
VL - 30
SP - 95
EP - 113
JO - Ancient Mesoamerica
JF - Ancient Mesoamerica
IS - 1
ER -