The Postclassic to Spanish-Era Transition in Mesoamerica: Archaeological Perspectives

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Figures 2.1 The tecpan-calli glyph 14 2.2 Changing political organization in central Mexico 15 2.3 Tenochtitlán–Mexico City: Codex Osuna tecpan 17 2.4 Tlatelolco: Códice del tecpan Santiago Tlatelolco tecpan 18 2.5 Tenochtitlán: Motecuzoma’s tecpan 20 2.6 Mapa de México, about 1550 21 2.7 Mapa de México, Sectors I and II 22 2.8 Mapa de México, Sectors III and IV 28 2.9 Mapa de México, Sector VI 29 2.10 Mapa de México, Sectors V, VIII, and IX 31 2.11 Mapa de México, Sectors VII, X, and XI 32 3.1 Map of the Centro Histórico of Mexico City 40 3.2 Majolica sherds excavated by the Programa de Arqueología Urbana 42 3.3 Red Ware sherds excavated by the Programa de Arqueología Urbana 43 4.1 Basin of Mexico with relevant sites 51 4.2 Eastern Teotihuacán Valley with Otumba and dependencies 53 5.1 The Tarascan empire 67 5.2 Late Postclassic settlements listed in documentary sources 68 5.3 Late Postclassic settlements from archaeological survey 69 6.1 Location of state of Chiapas in southern Mexico 78 6.2 Map of Chiapas 79 6.3 Linguistic map of Chiapas 80 6.4 Map of a portion of Chiapas highlands 85 7.1 The location of New Mexico in northern New Spain 98 7.2 The Rio Grande Valley 104 7.3 San Pedro, feature map 108 7.4 San Pedro, feature associated with copper production in plan and section 110 vii 8.1 Chikinchel in Yucatán 119 8.2 The Late Postclassic world system 123 8.3 The Chan Tzucub 125 8.4 Chikinchel in the Late Postclassic 127 8.5 Emal 128 8.6 Tases paste groups at Loche, San Fernando Aké, and Emal 130 8.7 Chikinchel in the Transitional Era 131 8.8 The Maya economic world, ca. 1540–1640 134 9.1 Mapped Postclassic and Colonial period sites in the central Petén Lakes region 142 9.2 Late seventeenth-century Maya political territories in the central Petén Lakes region 143 9.3 The peninsular site of Nixtun-Ch’ich’ in the western basin of Lake Petén Itzá 145 9.4 Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Maya language distribution 151 10.1 Location of the study area 163 10.2 Ecological zones in southwestern Campeche 168 10.3 Site plan of Isla Cilvituk 169 10.4 A sector at Isla Cilvituk 171 10.5 Site setting 174 10.6 Sahcabchén, eighteenth-century church interior 177 10.7 Sahcabchén, earlier chapel, possibly seventeenth century 178 10.8 Sahcabchén, Noria 178 11.1 Map of the southern Maya Lowlands and archaeological sites 186 11.2 Lacandon ceramics from El Caobal, Petén 190 11.3 Lacandon chert blades and arrowheads 191 11.4 Lacandon trade goods from El Caobal 192 11.5 God pot from El Mangal 194 11.6 Ceramics from La Palmera, Petén 195 11.7 Chert artifacts from La Palmera 195 11.8 Trade items from La Palmera 196 11.9 Metal artifacts from La Palmera 196 viii ...