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RADIOCARBON DATING APPLIED TO PREHISPANIC TERRITORIAL DYNAMICS AT EL MAYE, IXMIQUILPAN, HIDALGO, MEXICO

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Alberto Alcántara Open the ORCID record for Alberto Alcántara [Opens in a new window] ,
Corina Solís ,
Fernando López Aguilar ,
María Rodríguez-Ceja ,
Víctor Hugo Anaya Linares ,
Evgueni Santamaría Guadarrama  and
Silvia Bello Nuñez
Alberto Alcántara*
Affiliation:
Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 14000, Tlalpan, CDMX, México Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Periférico Sur y, Calle Zapote s/n, Isidro Fabela, CDMX, México LEMA, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Av. Universidad 3000, 04510, CDMX, México
Corina Solís
Affiliation:
LEMA, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Av. Universidad 3000, 04510, CDMX, México
Fernando López Aguilar
Affiliation:
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Periférico Sur y, Calle Zapote s/n, Isidro Fabela, CDMX, México
María Rodríguez-Ceja
Affiliation:
LEMA, Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Av. Universidad 3000, 04510, CDMX, México
Víctor Hugo Anaya Linares
Affiliation:
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Periférico Sur y, Calle Zapote s/n, Isidro Fabela, CDMX, México
Evgueni Santamaría Guadarrama
Affiliation:
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Periférico Sur y, Calle Zapote s/n, Isidro Fabela, CDMX, México
Silvia Bello Nuñez
Affiliation:
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Periférico Sur y, Calle Zapote s/n, Isidro Fabela, CDMX, México
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*Corresponding author. Email: alberto-luis96@hotmail.com.
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Abstract

El Maye is a community located in the municipality of Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, in the central region of Mexico. During the late Postclassic period (1350–1521 AD), the Aztecs controlled the area through the establishment of a dual-headed system, one part belonging to the Aztec government and the other to the local government. El Maye was the local government center for the Ixmiquilpan territory under the Aztec domain. The residential units of El Maye archaeological site were constructed in 6 different occupational phases, with the presence of large rooms, stucco floors and walls, offerings, and a variety of ceramics belonging to the late Aztec III ceramic period (1400–1520 AD). The Axis Project of the Mezquital Valley (PEVM-ENAH) and the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (LEMA-UNAM) have undertaken a collaborative study of the El Maye site by performing absolute radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (14C AMS) dating. For a better understanding of the emergence and development of El Maye, a series of AMS 14C dates of charcoal and bone samples recovered from different stratigraphic levels, was performed. This allowed us to locate the occupation of the site between 1320 and 1625 cal AD.

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AMSMéxicoprehispanic Mesoamericaradiocarbon
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Radiocarbon , Volume 62 , Issue 6: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium , December 2020 , pp. 1723 - 1731
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona

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Selected Papers from the 9th Radiocarbon & Archaeology Symposium, Athens, GA, USA, 20–24 May 2019

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