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The AztecsBook 1997 • Smith, Michael Ernest
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This monograph is a study in what the author calls 'social archaeology', an analysis of the everyday lives of peasants and other commoners in archaeological time. The major portion of the book describes Aztec civilization during the 91 years between ...Postclassic developments at Xochicalcoessay 2000 • Smith, Michael Ernest
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Using data from his 1977 excavations and others work in central Mexico, Smith seriated the Postclassic ceramics to create a Postclassic chronology. 'Next [Smith] provides summary descriptions of the major Postclassic ceramic types at Xochicalco. To s...Excavations of Aztec urban houses at Yautepec, Mexicoarticle 1999 • Smith, Michael Ernest et al.
Central Mexico Postclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This report is a discussion of recent excavations at the site of Yautepec in the Mexican state of Morelos that have uncovered a large set of residential structures from an Aztec city. Seven houses with asssociated middens, as well as several middens ...