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

List of Figures

Figure   1.   Location of eastern Guerrero.
Figure   2.   Tlapa-Tlachinollan Province.
Figure   3.   Folio 1 obverse of Codex Azoyú 1 (Vega Sosa 1991).
Figure   4.   Folio 17 obverse of Codex Azoyú 2 (MNA-INAH).
Figure   5.   Petlacala and Axoxuca-Atlixtac’s conquests in A.D. 1447 (Codex Azoyú 2, folio 3, obverse).
Figure   6.   Document AGN, Indios, vol. 34, exp. 140, December 1689.
Figure  7a.  Ideal shape of Tlachinollan if located on an isotropic plain with no political or economic competition.
Figure  7b.  Comparison between the ideal shape of the polity and the shape of Tlachinollan’s territory after A.D. 1510.
Figure   8.   The key site survey was undertaken with the help of local guides and authorities (Cochoapa Grande, Metlatonoc, Guerrero).
Figure   9.   Areas of archaeological survey in the Mixteca-Tlapaneca-Náhuatl region of Guerrero.
Figure 10.   Different sectors of the site of Contlalco (Tlachinollan).
Figure 11.   Distribution of Postclassic sites in the northern sector of the Montaña region. Note the concentration of sites along the rivers, especially in the area with the lowest rainfall during the rainy season (700-800 mm).
Figure 12.   Concentration of sites weighted by area size. Note the concentration of the largest sites in the eastern portion of the valley of Tlapa around Tlachinollan (Contlalco).
Figure 13.   Results of the q value for the regression line of the settlement system contained in the territory controlled by Tlachinollan in A.D. 1510.

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