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Excavations of Aztec urban houses at Yautepec, Mexico
Latin American antiquity • 10 (2) • Published In 1999 • Pages: 133-150
By: Smith, Michael Ernest, Heath-Smith, Cynthia, Montiel, Lisa.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 without architecture were excavated. This paper reviews the excavations, describes earch house, and summarizes the nature of contruction materials and methods employed. Comparisons of the Yautepec houses with other known Aztec houses are made with some preliminary inferences on the relationship between house size and wealth at the site (p. 133).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Masonry
- Refuse disposal and sanitary facilities
- Classes
- Cultural participation
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1989-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1300-1520 AD
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yautepec, Morelos, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael E. Smith, Cynthia Heath-Smith, and Lisa Montiel
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-150)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 91649207
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexico--Antiquities