Architectural Patterns at Three Aztec-Period Sites in Morelos, Mexico

Smith, Michael E.; Aguirre, P. Micaela; Heath-Smith, Cynthia; Hirst, K. Kris; O'Mack, Scott; Price, J. C. C.

doi:10.1179/jfa.1989.16.2.185

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“…Ethnohistorical sources (Herrera 1945:167;Motolinía 1951:202, 246) indicate that one of the incentives for maintaining polygynous households was the need for multiple textile producers to supply cloth for tribute and gifts. UA-1 Structure 1 is relatively small when compared to other Postclassic houses of central Mexico (Evans 1988;Norr 1987;Sisson 1973Sisson , 1974Smith et al 1989), so it is unlikely that it was a polygynous household despite the possibility of intensive spinning activity.…”

Section: Cultural Context Of Spinning and Weavingmentioning

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Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico

McCafferty

2000

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Colonial chroniclers marveled at the quality and variety of textiles produced at the Postclassic center of Cholula. As a principal market center, textiles were produced for tribute and exchange, and other woven goods were manufactured for local consumption. This paper examines ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence to interpret the technology, materials, scale, and social relations of textile production. Original spindle-whorl data from the UA-1 domestic compound is contrasted with other whorls from Postclassic Cholula and from other sites in central Mexico. Results of this analysis indicate the complexity of pre-Columbian textile production and the significance of spinning and weaving in economic and social reconstructions of the past.

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Section: Cultural Context Of Spinning and Weavingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico

McCafferty

2000

Ancient Mesoam

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“…At Cuexcomate, a Late Postclassic settlement of 175 structures in Morelos, the most prominent structure is a probable noble headquarters house. It is a residential compound formed of four interconnected platform houses (Smith et al 1989). Noble houses and their macehualli dependents are quite prominent in ethnohistoric accounts from the Valley of Puebla, and to some extent from the Valley of Morelos as well, but less so from the Valley of Mexico.…”

Section: Lordly Executivesmentioning

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“…Although the major ceremonies were held in the civicceremonial centers of the altepetl, there were small ritual structures in most rural villages. Parsons et al (1982) found several isolated ceremonial structures in or near small hamlets, and Smith et al (1989) describe a modest ceremonial structure in the Late Postclassic village of Cuexcomate, in Morelos. Motolinía (1971[1536-1543]:84, 1 a parte, cáp.…”

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Governing Smaller Communities in Aztec Mexico

Hicks

2012

Ancient Mesoam

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AbstractThe Nahua-speaking area of Postclassic central Mexico was composed of many city-states, which consisted of a nucleated and urbanized central area where the major political and economic centers were located, and a predominantly rural area where most of the people lived. This outlying area and its small communities had to be governed, and this paper identifies, from ethnohistorical sources, the most likely tasks of local government and the local officials responsible for carrying them out. Special attention is given to the role of the local nobility, where present, and of their equivalent, when not; to overseers of labor, and to leaders of the all-important labor squads which built and maintained the urban centers. The custodians of wealth and those most likely to have been military or ritual leaders are identified.

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“…Mesoamerican archaeologists have increasingly focused their research on the household during the last 20 years (Becker 1982(Becker , 1986Deal 1985;Evans 1991;Haviland 1965Haviland , 1985Haviland , 1988Killion 1992;Killion et al 1989;MacEachern et al 1989;Manzanilla and Barba 1990;McAnany 1993;Santley and Hirth 1993;Smith et al 1989;Tourtellot 1988;Wilk and Ashmore 1988). To date, however, there are few large-scale, systematic exposures (as opposed to partial excavation) of remains of the small households occupied by Classic Maya commoners (cf.…”

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Copan and Ceren

1997

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The volcanic eruption that buried Cerén, El Salvador, ata.d.590 preserved an extraordinary array of artifacts and features in or near their original positions. Household inventories are virtually complete, and activities can be reconstructed in almost ethnographic detail. It is therefore tempting to think that Cerén will automatically make less-well-preserved contexts at similar sites more explicable. This proposition is tested by comparing Cerén with a well-excavated set of household remains from seven small rural sites in the Copan Valley, Honduras, which have been much more heavily transformed by cultural and natural processes. Comparison is especially attractive because both the Cerén and Copan sites were small domestic places with similar social, residential, and economic functions. Both sets of sites also share a common basic cultural tradition on the southern periphery of Mesoamerica, and are in reasonably similar upland environmental settings.

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Architectural Patterns at Three Aztec-Period Sites in Morelos, Mexico

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico

Textile Production in Postclassic Cholula, Mexico

Governing Smaller Communities in Aztec Mexico

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