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Settlement patterns and chinampa agriculture at Tenochtitlan
American antiquity • 37 (1) • Published In 1972 • Pages: 104-115
By: Calnek, Edward E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Calnek examined maps and archival sources in Mexico City to begin to reconstruct settlement patterns and [n]chinampa[/n] use at Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, and western Lake Texcoco. Rough estimates of the possible output from the [n]chinampas[/n] indicate that they would have been used as a source of fresh vegetables and could not have supplied enough food to feed the city. Instead, the city would have supported itself through other types of occupational specialization and would have relied on food brought into the city and sold in the two marketplaces.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Production and supply
- Land use
- Settlement patterns
- Retail marketing
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Central Mexico Postclassic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1968 archival research in Mexico City
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- before 479 BP(before 1521 AD)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edward E. Calnek
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 115)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46036122
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexico--Antiquities