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Confronting Conflict in the Tequila Region: Spatial Configurations in a Bellicose Landscape (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Verenice Heredia Espinoza. Christopher Beekman.

During the Late Postclassic, the Tequila region was home to multiple small, ethnically, and linguistically diverse polities, which both competed and cooperated with one another. This period was highly conflictive due to attempts by the Tarascan Empire to push its way into the valleys, wreaking havoc in several towns along the way. To the north, bellicose, nomadic groups were also a threat to Tequila’s population. Therefore, we hypothesize that Late Postclassic settlement patterns reflect this...