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Geologic Notes on the Idolo de Coatlichán

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert F. Heizer  and
Howel Williams
Robert F. Heizer
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California, December, 1962
Howel Williams
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California, December, 1962
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Abstract

The largest sculptured monument in Mexico is the unfinished Idolo de Coatlichán, which weighs 197 metric tons and lies in the bottom of a barranco near Texcoco, where it was abandoned by its makers. The Idolo is made of a huge boulder of andesite, which is the same material from which the Diosa de Agua (also stylistically related), found at Teotihuacán, was carved. A tentative attempt is made to compute the number of workers required to transport the finished monument.

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American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 95 - 98
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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