Postclassic Urbanism at Calixtlahuaca: Reconstructing the Unpublished Excavations of José García Payón

List of Figures

Figure   1.  Location of Calixtlahuaca and other Postclassic sites in the Toluca Valley.
Figure   2.  Map of Calixtlahuaca. (digitized by Timothy S. Hare from a topographic map provided by Jorge Villanueva Villalpando of the Centro INAH, Estado de México).
Figure   3.  Structure 3 at Calixtlahuaca.
Figure   4.  Structure 3 at Calixtlahuaca, after Gendrop (1970).
Figure   5.  Group B (structures 4 and cruciform).
Figure   6.  Structure 17 drawing.
Figure   7.  Structure 17 photo.
Figure   8.  Group C.
Figure   9.  Burial engraving.
Figure 10.  Some of the variation in the Postclassic decorated ceramics. Row 1: Group C; Row 2: Groups B and E; Row 3: Groups E, B, and G. (5) Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, CONACULTA-INAH-MEX.
Figure 11.  Variation in vessel forms in the Calixtlahuaca collection. (7) Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, CONACULTA-INAH-MEX.
Figure 12.  Some imported vessels in the Calixtlahuaca collection. Row 1: Tlahuica polychrome from Morelos; Row 2: Aztec III/IV from the Basin of México and "Chontal" polychrome from Guerrero; Row 3: Negative polychrome from San Miguel Ixtapan, Aztec III from the Basin of México, and "Laca" polychrome from Puebla or Tlaxcala. (6) Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, CONACULTA-INAH-MEX.
Figure 13.  Aztec-style figurines from Calixtlahuaca. A and B: coarse paste of unknown origin, probably local; C: fine gray paste from the western Basin of México; D, E: fine orange paste from the Basin of México. (11) Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, CONACULTA-INAH-MEX.
Figure 14.  Classic period vessels from Calixtlahuaca. Left: 2 vessels in Teotihuacán style; right: 2 vessels imported from Oaxaca (Monte Albán II or IIIa). (8) Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, CONACULTA-INAH-MEX.

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