Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the La Montaña of Guerrero: Patterns in the Political and Territorial Expansion of a Tlapaneco-Mixteco Polity in Post-Classic Mesoamerica
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Research Year:  2000
Culture:  Tlapaneco-Mixtec
Chronology:  Post Classic
Location:  Guerrero, México
Site:  Tlapa-Tlachinollan

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Abstract
Goals and Problems
Results
Concluding Remarks
List of Figures
Sources Cited

Abstract

According to Codex Azoyú 1, in the year 1421 A.D., the polity of Tlapa experienced a process of territorial growth at the expense of 20 neighboring political units. Thus, the objective of this research was to identify and explain the spatial patterns of territorial expansion related to the formation of this complex Tlapaneco-Mixteco polity. Through an analysis of the incremental evolution of its expansion, I learned about the strategies used by Tlapa to meet the economic demands of the incorporation of new territories. Over a five-month period this project conducted archaeological explorations in eastern Guerrero, México, and it adds to the archaeological knowledge of the nearly unknown Mixteca-Nahua-Tlapaneca region of Mesoamerica.

For additional information view the publication below:

Catálogo de sitios arqueológicos de las regiones Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Nahua y Costa Chica de Guerrero (in Spanish)

Submitted 06/14/2002 by:
Gerardo Gutiérrez
gxg153@hotmail.com

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