Urbanism and Domestic Life in the Tlajinga District, Teotihuacan: New Research

Summary

Teotihuacan’s Tlajinga district comprises a cluster of neighborhoods of primarily common status apartment compounds, covering approximately 1km2 in the south of the city. Previous investigations at one of them, 33:S3W1 or “Tlajinga 33,” provided valuable information concerning daily life in the urban periphery. The Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT) has thus far involved excavations at two other compounds (designated 17:S3E1 and 18:S3E1) and along the southern extension of the Street of the Dead, in addition to geophysical prospection of these areas and others within the district. In this paper I provide a summary of fieldwork and contexts for the artifact analyses and chronological considerations of papers to follow. I discuss processes of urban sprawl into the periphery, the construction of the southern extension of the Street of the Dead, changes in domestic architecture, a domestic obsidian workshop, and ritual caches and termination deposits that are informative as to the social status and activities of the residents of the compound.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• The Rise and Decline of Teotihuacan: Urbanism, Daily Life, and Regional Relations through Time

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