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Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Post-Conquest Aztec Sites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas H. Charlton
Thomas H. Charlton*
Affiliation:
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Abstract

Recent archaeological and ethnographic research has made known the pre-Conquest and contemporary settlement patterns of the Teotihuacán Valley. Similar data for the intervening post-Conquest period are not available. Most archaeologists have restricted their research to the pre-Conquest period, and the documents do not contain pertinent detailed information on settlement patterns.

To resolve this problem I propose the application of archaeological methodology to sites located and identified through ethnohistoric research. My preliminary results in the area southeast of Otumba suggest that the method is feasible and productive.

I also explore the theoretical implications of the data recovered from dated archaeological deposits for which the relevant sociocultural factors are known.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , July 1969 , pp. 286 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1969

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