TY - JOUR
T1 - Architectural patterns at three aztec- period sites in morelos, mexico
AU - Smith, Michael E.
AU - Aguirre, Patricia
AU - Heath-Smith, Cynthia
AU - Hirst, Kathryn
AU - O’Mack, Scott
AU - Price, Jeffrey
N1 - Funding Information:
The Postclassic Morelos Archaeological Project is being funded by the National Science Foundation (grant BNS-8507466 for excavation and grant BNS-8804163 for analysis), Loyola University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (a summer stipend to Smith). The authors would like to thank Joaquin Garcia-Barcena, President of the Consejo de Arqueologia of the Instituto N acional de Antropologia e Historia, for help in securing the fieldwork permits. Norberto Gonzalez Crespo, Director of the Centro Regional Morelos, Instituto N acional de Antropologfa e Historia, aided the project in many ways and we thank him for making the facilities of the Centro Regional available to us. Kenneth G. Hirth, director of the Xochicalco Mapping Project, has been helpful in sharing data, laboratory equipment, and ideas with us. We would like to thank Susan Evans and Cheryl Sutherland for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this article, and the Editor and staff of the Journal of Field Archaeology have made many improvements. In addition to the authors, the following students participated in the fieldwork: Martin Antonio, Colleen Rhodes, Osvaldo Sterpone, Cheryl Sutherland, and Deborah Szymborski. Finally, we thank our workers from the villages ofTetlama and Xochicalco, Mo-relos, for their help and friendship in the field.
PY - 1989/1
Y1 - 1989/1
N2 - Excavations conducted by the Postclassic Morelos Archaeological Project in western Morelos, Mexico, have recovered data on stone architecture during the Late Postclassic, or Aztec, period at three sites: Cuexcomate (a town settlement); Capilco (a village); and Site 3 (a farmstead). Whereas the village site exhibits only one class of structures (ground-level houses), the town has a diversity of architectural classes including ground-level houses, platform houses, temple platforms, circular structures, and rock piles. These categories are described and the nature of inter-class and intra-class architectural variability is explored. Our results shed light on the nature of the Aztec peasantry, suggesting a high level of social complexity in rural provincial areas.
AB - Excavations conducted by the Postclassic Morelos Archaeological Project in western Morelos, Mexico, have recovered data on stone architecture during the Late Postclassic, or Aztec, period at three sites: Cuexcomate (a town settlement); Capilco (a village); and Site 3 (a farmstead). Whereas the village site exhibits only one class of structures (ground-level houses), the town has a diversity of architectural classes including ground-level houses, platform houses, temple platforms, circular structures, and rock piles. These categories are described and the nature of inter-class and intra-class architectural variability is explored. Our results shed light on the nature of the Aztec peasantry, suggesting a high level of social complexity in rural provincial areas.
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U2 - 10.1179/jfa.1989.16.2.185
DO - 10.1179/jfa.1989.16.2.185
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84975001086
SN - 0093-4690
VL - 16
SP - 185
EP - 203
JO - Journal of Field Archaeology
JF - Journal of Field Archaeology
IS - 2
ER -