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Tula, Tollan, and the Toltecs in Mesoamerican prehistoryessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This article, making particular use of the accounts of Sahagún, attempts to summarize some of the more commonly agreed-upon aspects of Toltec civilization, prior to the establishment of the Aztecs in Central Mexico. Much of the paper deals with the c...Synopsis of structural remains in the canal localityessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This is a detailed synopsis of the structural remains found at the Canal Locality site located approximately 1.5 kilometers northeast of Tula Grande near the modern Endho irrigation canal. Healan groups the houses excavated into three major house blo...Stratigraphy of the Canal Localityessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This is a detailed study of the stratigraphy of the Canal Locality sites at Tula, with emphasis on the Central Group of overlapping sites. Data include profiles of the sites excavated, composition of the soils, erosion factors, and comments on the re...The Central Group and West Groupessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This is a detailed analysis of the Central and West house group compounds at the Canal Locality archaeological site at Tula, Mexico. Text figures are presented showing the physical location of each house within each of these major groups. This is fol...Synthesis of Prehispanic occupation of Canal Localityessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This paper is a synthesis of data from the eHRAF Collection of Archaeology, documents 16: Healan, 17: Healan, and 18: Stocker and Healan regarding the prehispanic occupation of the Canal Locality site at Tula. Topics include Tula's early history, ini...Surface survey of the Tula urban zoneessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
In this document the authors describe their methodology in doing a surface survey of the Tula urban zone area in an attempt to determine the maximum extent of the zone itself, settlement patterns and changes in settlements through time, estimates of ...Appendix IIessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This is a detailed description of a possible ceramic tube kiln found in house VIII at the Canal Locality site at Tula. Text figures and photographs clearly illustrate the author's discussion of this type of 'kiln'....Bibliographyessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This work consists in its entirety of bibliographical citations relevant to the eHRAF archaeological collection, documents 9 to 23....MAPS Appendix IIIessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This document, listed as Appendix III, consists in its entirety of two maps dealing with the stratigraphy of the north and west profiles of the excavations at Tula. These maps are accompanied with an explanatory chart depicting the nature of the stra...Field methodsessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M. & Benfer, Robert A.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
As the results of three seasons of field work at Tula, the authors have evolved a slight variation in their field methodology which they believed would be better suited for the excavation of the complex architectural remains found at the site. This m...Synthesis and conclusionsessay 1989 • Healan, Dan M. et al.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This is primarily an historical reconstruction of data relevant to the origins and development of urbanism at the postclassic city of Tula in Mexico based in part on the authors' excavations at the El Corral Locality and Canal Locality sites. Major t...The East Group and nearby remainsessay 1989 • Stocker, Terrance Lynn & Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This article describes in detail the main features of the two structures found in the East Group of buildings at the Canal Locality site at Tula. One of these structures is a temple platform, and the other designated House X, is located to the east o...Architectural remains in El Corral Localityessay 1989 • Mandeville, Margaret D. & Healan, Dan M.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
In this article Mandeville and Healan discuss in detail the architectural remains found at the El Corral Locality site at Tula, and comparisons made to comparable data from the excavations at the Canal Locality site in the general area. The authors d...