Tepetlaoztoc Project: Archaeological Investigations

Conclusion

In conclusion, the particular value of a major household archaeology project at Tepetlaoztoc was the possibility of combining historical and archaeological data, to elucidate a number of major issues in Late Aztec and Early Colonial culture history, particularly the size, composition, and spatial relationship of households during a period of perhaps 200 years. The 16th century documents were unusually detailed (even including land holdings with respect to households) on the one hand and the archaeological data revealed by Parsons 1967 survey equally abundant. Because of the extensive destruction of the archaeological remains of a once widely dispersed rural population we are now reduced to possibly documenting the final decades of the process (i.e., when the congregacíon policy was completed and the population concentrated at the town).

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