What Happened after the Fall of Teotihuacan?

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "What Happened after the Fall of Teotihuacan?" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The great metropolis of Teotihuacan in Central Mexico was a unique settlement in Classic Mesoamerica due to its huge size, orthogonal urban grid, and multiethnic society. The contradiction between the corporate base or the ruling council and the competitive behavior of the intermediate elite tore the multiethnic pact and provoked a revolt that set the core of the city on fire, the settings associated with the ruling elite. This event was contemporary with the heavy impact of urban sprawl in its immediate environment as well as a long-lasting drought in Central Mexico. The effects of the fall of Teotihuacan impacted all Mesoamerica. Most of the population fled from the city and was replaced by newcomers. This symposium will review the information we have on the Epiclassic and Postclassic groups that lived in the valley of Teotihuacan after the collapse of the Classic metropolis. The project I headed since 1987, “The Study of Tunnels and Caves in Teotihuacan,” offered a vast amount of information on subsistence; manufacture of objects; and funerary, fertility, and deity rituals of the Coyotlatelco people with links to the Bajío region, the Mazapa groups with relations to the Tula Valley, and the Aztecs.