Tlajinga, Teotihuacan, Mexico

Summary

Investigations of the Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga Teotihuacan (PATT) focus on the Tlajinga district, a cluster of neighborhoods in the southern part of Teotihuacan, Mexico. The area was inhabited by a lower socioeconomic stratum, was the locus of intensive utilitarian craft production, and is bisected by the city’s central artery—named the Street of the Dead by the later Aztecs, who viewed Teotihuacan as a mythical place of origins and an archetypal city. Research goals of the PATT scale from the level of the household to the level of the urbanization of the city as a whole. They include understanding the tempo and processes of urban growth; the dynamics between central civic planning and neighborhoods; and the domestic economy and daily life of the common-status families who resided in the district and represent the urban experience for a majority of the city’s inhabitants.

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Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 100 to 600 (Approximate range of primary Classic period occupation.)

Spatial Coverage

Individual & Institutional Roles

Project Director(s): Carballo David; Barbal Luis; Hirth Kenneth

Notes

Rights & Attribution: Please cite project technical reports using following reference information: Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.) 2016 Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan: Temporada 2016. Manuscript on file at the Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City. Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.) 2015 Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan: Temporada 2014-15. Manuscript on file at the Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City. Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.) 2014 Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan: Temporada 2013. Manuscript on file at the Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City. Carballo, David M., and Luis Barba (eds.) 2012 Proyecto Arqueológico Tlajinga, Teotihuacan: Temporada 2012. Manuscript on file at the Consejo de Arqueología, INAH, Mexico City.