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  3. Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco-Xochimilco Region

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco-Xochimilco Region

Jeffrey R. Parsons, Elizabeth Brumfiel, Mary H. Parsons, and David J. Wilson
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  • Overview

  • Contents

Extensive description and analysis of the archaeological settlement data collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Chalco-Xochimilco Region in the Valley of Mexico.
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Maps
  • Figures
  • Plates
  • Acknowledgements
  • I. Introduction
    • Overall Objectives
    • The Research: Limitations, Scope, Objective, and Assumptions
  • II. The Natural Environment
    • Central Mexico
    • The Valley of Mexico
    • The Chalco-Xochimilco Region Survey Area
  • III. Post-Hispanic Settlement and Demography
    • The 20th Century
    • The Late Colonial Period (Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries)
    • The Post-Hispanic 16th Century
  • IV. Methodology
    • General Considerations
    • Survey Techniques
    • Site Classification
    • Chronology
  • V. An Ethnohistoric Synthesis of the Chalco-Xochimilco Region
    • Introduction
    • The Xochimilca Domain
    • Cuitlahuac and Mixquic
    • The Chalca Domain
    • The Initial Mexica Conquest of Chalco-Xochimilco
    • Chalco-Xochimilco Under the Triple Alliance
    • Conclusion
  • VI. Site Descriptions
    • Early Formative (Early Horizon)
    • Middle Formative (First Intermediate Phase One)
    • Late Formative (First Intermediate Phase Two)
    • Terminal Formative (First Intermediate Phase Three, Patlachique Phase)
    • Classic (First Intermediate Phase Five and Middle Horizon)
    • Early Toltec (Second Intermediate Phase One)
    • Late Toltec (Second Intermediate Phase Two)
    • Aztec (Second Intermediate Phase Three and Late Horizon)
  • VII. The Patterning Of Settlement
    • Introduction
    • Trends in Overall Population Size
    • Chronological Trends in Settlement Type
    • Trends in the Distribution of Settlement with Respect to the Natural Environment
    • Trends in the Distribution of Settlement with Respect to the Cultural Environment
    • Summary and Conclusions
  • VIII. The Chalco-Xochimilco Region in Central Mexico
    • Introduction
    • The Early Occupation of the Valley of Mexico by Sedentary Agriculturalists
    • The Dynamics of Population Growth and Settlement Expansion in the First Intermediate Period
    • The Development and Organization of Teotihuacan
    • The Decline of Teotihuacan and the Development of Tula and Cholula
    • The Decline of Tula and Population Expansion in the Valley of Mexico During the Second intermediate Phase Three
    • The Development and Organization of the Triple Alliance
  • IX. Overall Conclusions
    • Settlement Typology
    • Agricultural Systems
    • Settlement Dynamics
      • Stage One: Pioneering and Settling In, 1300-300 B.C
      • Stage Two: Contraction and Withdrawal, 300 B.C.-A.D. 200
      • Stage Three: Structured Re-settlement and Stabilization, A.D. 200-750
      • Stage Four: Fluctuation and Reconsolidation, A.D. 750-1350
      • Stage Five: Expansion in the Breadbasket of an Empire, A.D. 1350-1520
  • Appendices
    • 1. Ceramic Markers used for Period Designations, by Michael E. Whalen and Jeffrey R. Parsons
    • 2. Fragment of a Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain Vessel, by Kamer Aga-Oglu and Nancy Liu
    • 3. A Summary ofthe Coding and Computer Analysis of the Valley of Mexico Archaeological Survey, by Keith Kintigh
    • 4. The Aztec Monuments of Acalpixcan, by Joyce Marcus
  • Bibliography
  • Resumen En Espanol
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Published: 1982
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-951538-13-2 (ebook)
  • 978-0-932206-88-6 (paper)
Series
  • Memoirs
Subject
  • Latin American Studies
  • Archaeology:New World
https://lsa.umich.edu/ummaa

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