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Texcoco Fabric-Marked Pottery, Tlateles, and Salt-Making

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

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

An examination of the data used to support Nunley’s hypothesis (1967) that Texcoco Fabric-marked pottery vessels functioned as flowerpots to adapt chinampa agriculture to saline Lake Texcoco does not confirm his conclusions. The distribution of the ware and tlateles coincides not with chinampa agriculture but with salt-producing communities of the 16th century. Aboriginal salt-making produced large mounds of washed or leached soils which are the tlateles. Texcoco Fabric-marked ware is suited for the rapid heating of saline solutions. It is concluded that the sherds and the tlateles are the archaeological remains of Aztec salt-making activities.

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American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1969 , pp. 73 - 76
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1969

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