Despite the number of other things many members of the project are juggling, we're continuing to publish about Calixtlahuaca. This is our semi-annual summary of publications about the project. As always, if I've forgotten something, or you want a copy of one of these, let me know.
Borejsza, Aleksander
2018 Las nueve reencarnaciones de Matlatzinco:
comentarios acerca de la estructura del altepetl y un intento más de acomodar
el rompecabezas terminológico matlatzinca. Anales de Antropología 52(2):71-93.
A look at prehispanic
political structure of the Toluca Valley, based on early Colonial records. It
includes a very useful clarification of the multiple things “Matlatzinco/a” has
been used to describe. It also argues that Calixtlahuaca/Tollacan may have been
a double altepetl, something that would help explain the linguistic confusion
between the two.
Huster, Angela C.
2019 Maguey
use at Postclassic Calixtlahuaca. Mexicon 41(1 - February):20-27.
A summary of the
evidence for relatively intensive maguey cultivation and use at Calixtlahuaca,
including its use in terracing, house construction, and textile production.
Huster, Angela C.
2019 Looming
Deficits: Textile Production Specialization in Postclassic Mesoamerica. Latin
American Antiquity 30(4):780-797.
A paper on broad regional trends in textile production during the
Postclassic, with a focus on how Calixtlahuaca compares to other contemporaneous
sites. Calixtlahuaca shows the same general pattern of increasing textile
production over time, but a higher emphasis on maguey textiles (as opposed to
cotton) results in a modestly lower total level of textile production than is
seen at many other sites in the Central Mexican highlands.
Huster, Angela C. and
Daniel E. Pierce
2020 A
Geochemical Baseline for Clays of the Toluca Valley, Mexico. Journal of
Archaeological Science: Reports 39:online preview.
The results of INAA
of 28 clay samples from the Toluca Valley, showing both regional trends and a
degree of overlap with portions of the Basin of Mexico.
Ossa, Alanna, Michael
E Smith and José Lobo
2017 The
size of plazas in Mesoamerican cities and towns: a quantitative analysis. Latin American Antiquity
28(4):457-475.
A comparative study
of plaza size and population at in three Mesoamerica settlement systems.
Calixtlahuaca is one of the cases in the Postclassic dataset. Despite not
having a clear primary plaza, the total plaza area at Calixtlahuaca is
consistent with the population/plaza size relationship seen at other
Mesoamerican sites.
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