Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco-Xochimilco Region

Contents
Tables
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Figures
Plates
Acknowledgements
I. Introduction
	Overall Objectives
	The Research: Limitations, Scope, Objective, and Assumptions
II. The Natural Environment
	Central Mexico
	The Valley of Mexico
	The Chalco-Xochimilco Region Survey Area
III. Post-Hispanic Settlement and Demography
	The 20th Century
	The Late Colonial Period (Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries)
	The Post-Hispanic 16th Century
IV. Methodology
	General Considerations
	Survey Techniques
	Site Classification
	Chronology
V. An Ethnohistoric Synthesis of the Chalco-Xochimilco Region
	Introduction
	The Xochimilca Domain
	Cuitlahuac and Mixquic
	The Chalca Domain
	The Initial Mexica Conquest of Chalco-Xochimilco
	Chalco-Xochimilco Under the Triple Alliance
	Conclusion
VI. Site Descriptions
	Early Formative (Early Horizon)
	Middle Formative (First Intermediate Phase One)
	Late Formative (First Intermediate Phase Two)
	Terminal Formative (First Intermediate Phase Three, Patlachique Phase)
	Classic (First Intermediate Phase Five and Middle Horizon)
	Early Toltec (Second Intermediate Phase One)
	Late Toltec (Second Intermediate Phase Two)
	Aztec (Second Intermediate Phase Three and Late Horizon)
VII. The Patterning Of Settlement
	Introduction
	Trends in Overall Population Size
	Chronological Trends in Settlement Type
	Trends in the Distribution of Settlement with Respect to the Natural Environment
	Trends in the Distribution of Settlement with Respect to the Cultural Environment
	Summary and Conclusions
VIII. The Chalco-Xochimilco Region in Central Mexico
	Introduction
	The Early Occupation of the Valley of Mexico by Sedentary Agriculturalists
	The Dynamics of Population Growth and Settlement Expansion in the First Intermediate Period
	The Development and Organization of Teotihuacan
	The Decline of Teotihuacan and the Development of Tula and Cholula
	The Decline of Tula and Population Expansion in the Valley of Mexico During the Second intermediate Phase Three
	The Development and Organization of the Triple Alliance
IX. Overall Conclusions
	Settlement Typology
	Agricultural Systems
	Settlement Dynamics
		Stage One: Pioneering and Settling In, 1300-300 B.C
		Stage Two: Contraction and Withdrawal, 300 B.C.-A.D. 200
		Stage Three: Structured Re-settlement and Stabilization, A.D. 200-750
		Stage Four: Fluctuation and Reconsolidation, A.D. 750-1350
		Stage Five: Expansion in the Breadbasket of an Empire, A.D. 1350-1520
Appendices
	1. Ceramic Markers used for Period Designations, by Michael E. Whalen and Jeffrey R. Parsons
	2. Fragment of a Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain Vessel, by Kamer Aga-Oglu and Nancy Liu
	3. A Summary ofthe Coding and Computer Analysis of the Valley of Mexico Archaeological Survey, by Keith Kintigh
	4. The Aztec Monuments of Acalpixcan, by Joyce Marcus
Bibliography
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