“…Our research has confirmed these general trends, albeit with some modifications. Recent research by Richard Lesure, David Carballo and others in central Tlaxcala (Lesure 2014; Carballo 2015) proposed substantial modifications of absolute dates (650–500 BC for the Texoloc and 500 BC–AD 50/100 for the Tezoquipan), which are also followed here (Figure 2). Figure 2. The chronology of the Puebla-Tlaxcala region and Teotihuacan (based on García Cook & Merino Carrión 2005; Lesure 2014).…”
Section: Tlalancaleca and Early Urbanism In Central Mexicosupporting
confidence: 62%
“…The chronology of the Puebla-Tlaxcala region and Teotihuacan (based on García Cook & Merino Carrión 2005; Lesure 2014). …”
Section: Tlalancaleca and Early Urbanism In Central Mexicomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As artefact analysis is still in progress and a site-specific ceramic chronology remains to be established, our phase assignment is based on preliminary ceramic classification, building on the combined work of Montaño (1998), Rattray (2001), Serra Puche et al . (2004), García Cook and Merino Carrión (2005) and Lesure (2014). Figure 5. Site map showing artefact density.…”
Section: Developmental Trajectories Of Tlalancalecamentioning
“…Our research has confirmed these general trends, albeit with some modifications. Recent research by Richard Lesure, David Carballo and others in central Tlaxcala (Lesure 2014; Carballo 2015) proposed substantial modifications of absolute dates (650–500 BC for the Texoloc and 500 BC–AD 50/100 for the Tezoquipan), which are also followed here (Figure 2). Figure 2. The chronology of the Puebla-Tlaxcala region and Teotihuacan (based on García Cook & Merino Carrión 2005; Lesure 2014).…”
Section: Tlalancaleca and Early Urbanism In Central Mexicosupporting
confidence: 62%
“…The chronology of the Puebla-Tlaxcala region and Teotihuacan (based on García Cook & Merino Carrión 2005; Lesure 2014). …”
Section: Tlalancaleca and Early Urbanism In Central Mexicomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As artefact analysis is still in progress and a site-specific ceramic chronology remains to be established, our phase assignment is based on preliminary ceramic classification, building on the combined work of Montaño (1998), Rattray (2001), Serra Puche et al . (2004), García Cook and Merino Carrión (2005) and Lesure (2014). Figure 5. Site map showing artefact density.…”
Section: Developmental Trajectories Of Tlalancalecamentioning
“…The age assigned to the terraces was that of the sherds, and ranged from the earliest Formative to the Late Postclassic (Abascal Macías, 1980;Abascal Macías and García Cook, 1975;Merino Carrió n, 1989). Excavations at three of the sites in question -Amomoloc, Tetel, and Las Mesas (Lesure et al, 2006;Lesure, in press), all Formative in age -showed that terrace fills rested on top of erosional unconformities that truncated Formative features. There was no reason to think that they were earlier than the Postclassic.…”
Section: Erosional Environments On Slopesmentioning
“…to agriculturalists (500 b.c. ; Lesure 2011). Figure 2.(a) Table showing the main eruptions of the Tacaná Volcanic Complex and their correlation with the chronology periods of Chiapanecan Soconuco (Lesure 2011) and Izapa (Rosenswig et al 2014).…”
Between the years of 30 b.c. to a.d. 80, during the Late Formative period, the site of Izapa was flooded by lahars associated with an explosive eruption of the San Antonio volcano (part of the Tacaná Volcanic Complex). Computer simulations suggest that hot pyroclastic flows did not impact Izapa directly, but did impact the region considerably, filling and clogging the Cahuacan and Mixcun rivers with hot debris. The material was quickly saturated by heavy rains and, as the water from the rivers overtopped the obstruction, remobilized in the form of a hot mixture of mud and water known as a lahar (or flood of volcanic origin), which flowed down through the piedmont zone along the Cahuacan, Mixcun-Suchiate, and Izapa rivers. At Izapa, the flood took the form of a 6-m catastrophic wave of mud and water that likely destroyed crops and caused many causalities, surrounding the architectural mounds at Izapa with a muddy landscape. The floods also dramatically affected the rivers downstream, undoubtedly wreaking serious damage to the transport and trade of goods along the coast.
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