Return to Hacienda Metepec: Exploring Continuity and Change at Teotihuacan

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Central Mexico after Teotihuacan: Everyday Life and the (Re)Making of Epiclassic Communities" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent archaeological research in central Mexico has examined the transformations of prehispanic communities during the Epiclassic period (AD 550–850) from the perspective of Teotihuacan’s neighboring settlements and peripheral regions. Less attention, however, has been given to the concomitant structural changes that occurred within the urban settlement itself. Excavations conducted in 1979 by Evelyn Childs Rattray at Hacienda Metepec (9:N1E7), near the eastern edge of Teotihuacan urban core, yielded important archaeological data relevant to understanding the Classic–Epiclassic transition and to better characterizing the economic, ritual, spatial, and demographic transformations at the site. Surface collection data from the Teotihuacan mapping project and Rattray’s excavations demonstrate a continuous stratigraphy at Hacienda Metepec from the Classic to the Postclassic periods and the presence of a sizable Coyotlatelco (Epiclassic) phase occupation. In this paper, we synthesize previous research conducted at Hacienda Metepec and discuss the importance of this data within the context of our current knowledge of the Classic to Epiclassic transition and in light of current hypotheses regarding these changes. Finally, we present an outline of future field research at Hacienda Metepec.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Central Mexico after Teotihuacan: Everyday Life and the (Re)Making of Epiclassic Communities

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Abstract Id(s): 30946