TY - JOUR
T1 - The cerro gordo site
T2 - A rural settlement of the aztec period in the basin of Mexico
AU - Evans, Susan T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for the survey was provided by a grant from the Hill Foundation of The Pennsylvania State University. The Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia permitted me to survey this area. Raul Avila and Michele Hayward assisted in mapping the site. I appreciate comments made on an earlier draft of this report by Elliot Abrams, David Webster, and two other reviewers.
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - While the dramatic recent excavations at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan have vividly brought to life the richness of Aztec elite rituals at the capital of this huge, wealthy, and powerful empire, life in rural settlements in the Basin of Mexico at the same time is not as well understood. Available data on the subject are limited to ethnohistorical documentation and the general surveys of the Basin of Mexico Project, and to isolated instances of excavation. In this report, a rural village in the Teotihuacan Valley is described, using information derived from an intensive survey of the site, and drawing also on ethnohistorical sources, in order to address such issues as the relationship of the village to its environmental and sociopolitical settings, and the nature of the variety of architectural remains found at the site.
AB - While the dramatic recent excavations at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan have vividly brought to life the richness of Aztec elite rituals at the capital of this huge, wealthy, and powerful empire, life in rural settlements in the Basin of Mexico at the same time is not as well understood. Available data on the subject are limited to ethnohistorical documentation and the general surveys of the Basin of Mexico Project, and to isolated instances of excavation. In this report, a rural village in the Teotihuacan Valley is described, using information derived from an intensive survey of the site, and drawing also on ethnohistorical sources, in order to address such issues as the relationship of the village to its environmental and sociopolitical settings, and the nature of the variety of architectural remains found at the site.
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U2 - 10.1179/009346985791169526
DO - 10.1179/009346985791169526
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84974969929
SN - 0093-4690
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - Journal of Field Archaeology
JF - Journal of Field Archaeology
IS - 1
ER -