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ix Illustrations Figures 2.1. Approaching the Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla 22 2.2. Map of central Mexico showing location of San Miguel Acocotla 24 2.3. Calpanería room, Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla 27 3.1. Survey map of the town of San Jerónimo Coyula (1754) 39 3.2. Number of deaths by age group (1870–1874) in San Jerónimo Coyula 52 4.1. The main street (Independencia) of La Soledad Morelos, June 2004 58 4.2a. Medical clinic, La Soledad Morelos 59 4.2b. Public health announcement for a national vaccination program 60 4.3. Catholic church, La Soledad Morelos 61 4.4. Goats and gang graffiti 63 4.5. Temascal in traditional house compound, La Soledad Morelos 68 4.6. Traditional architecture, La Soledad Morelos 71 4.7. Domestic compounds, La Soledad Morelos 72 4.8. Smoke kitchen, La Soledad Morelos 77 5.1. The Hacienda Acocotla at the beginning of the twentieth century 85 5.2. Calpanería, Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla 86 5.3. Entrance to the Patio del Limón 89 5.4. Mapping the calpanería 91 5.5. Room 17, façade 92 5.6. Smoke kitchen 97 x • Illustrations 5.7. Room 20, plan map 102 5.8. Room 21, roof collapse and prepared floor surface 103 5.9. Room 21, west wall profile 103 5.10a. Room 20, stone floor 104 5.10b. Room 20, stone floor on top of roof collapse 105 5.11. Room 18, plaster floor 106 5.12. Midden excavations, winter 2007 108 5.13. Midden unit, brick patio 109 6.1. Reconstruction of the Patio del Limón 127 6.2. Reconstruction of calpanería, exterior 129 6.3. Reconstruction of interior of calpanería room 130 7.1. “Coarse Thin Orange” amphora 144 7.2. Vessel forms found at Acocotla 152 7.3. Expected and actual utility percentages for faunal remains 159 7.4. Polished coarse earthenware bowl 163 7.5. Tazón/taza, nineteenth-century majolica 164 7.6. Oaxaca Polychrome 165 8.1. Scythe, found on the floor of room 11 174 8.2a. Day of the Dead, San Jerónimo Coyula, November 2007 179 8.2b. Day of the Dead, San Jerónimo Coyula, November 2007 180 8.3. Carved bone cross and copper rosary cross 181 8.4a. Jewelry 183 8.4b. Jewelry 183 8.4c. Jewelry 184 8.4d. Jewelry 184 8.5. Perfume bottle 185 8.6a. Sewing/fabric production at Acocotla 188 8.6b. Sewing/fabric production at Acocotla 188 8.7. Figa (or higa) 192 8.8. Chert biface 194 8.9. Part of oil lamp 197 C.1. Planting the fields 202 ...

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