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

Concluding Remarks

It is important to understand that the territorial expansion of Tlapa-Tlachinollan consisted of the modular annexation of other regional competing altepeme into and under its sphere of command. With the exception of some highly productive irrigation lands, the leaders of Tlapa-Tlachinollan were more interested in controlling the labor and specific resources of the region than the whole territory.

Internal conflict and disagreement over political succession seem to have sparked the initial impetus of Tlachinollan’s expansion. This supports an important assertion of this dissertation that territorial growth is the spatial manifestation of intra-polity competition.

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