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Household and Status in Formative Central Mexico: Domestic Structures, Assemblages, and Practices at La Laguna, Tlaxcala

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David M. Carballo
David M. Carballo*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Post Office Box 870210, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0210 (david m.carballo@ua.edu).
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Abstract

Two Terminal Formative (ca. 100 B. C.–A.D. 100) domestic areas of La Laguna, Tlaxcala, are compared to examine variability in residential structures, assemblages, and practices, and their correlation to status differences at this midsize regional center during the period of initial central Mexican urbanization and state formation. Combining multiple lines of evidence, the study assesses the applicability of previous frameworks for investigating household status to this particular community. It demonstrates significant differences between elite and commoner residences in architectural elaboration, labor mobilization, access to certain foreign goods, and particular ritual practices, but general similarities in domestic economies and more restrained differentiation informs of personal adornment and domestic ritual. These conclusions are consistent with demarcated lineage ranking but relatively minor wealth accumulation by a more rural elite located peripherally to larger cities and polities.

Dos zonas residenciales del sitio La Laguna, Tlaxcala, correspondiendo al Formativo terminal (e. 100 a. C.–100 d.C), se comparan para entender la variabilidad en estructuras, conjuntos y prácticas domésticas en este centro regional de tamaño medio durante la fase inicial de urbanización y de evolución del Estado en el Altiplano Central mexicano. Juntando líneas de evidencia múltiples—incluso arquitectura, herramientas utilitarias, adornos personales e implementos de uso ritual—el estudio evalúa trabajos previos acerca del tema con respecto a la comunidad particular de La Laguna. Demuestra diferencias significativas entre familias de élite y del común en la elaboración arquitectónica, la movilización del mano de obra, el acceso a ciertos recursos foráneos y en ciertas prácticas rituales, pero semejanzas generales en sus economías domésticas y diferencias más sutiles en tipos de adorno personal y en otros rituales cotidianos. Las conclusiones son consistentes con la presencia de demarcaciones bien establecidas entre los rangos familiares pero relativamente bajos niveles de acumulación de riquezas por parte de una élite rural situada de manera periférica a ciudades y centros de poder más grandes.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 473 - 501
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