The Valley of Mexico: Studies in Pre-Hispanic Ecology and Society

agricultural Alluvial Plain apartment compounds archaeological architecture Aztec barranca barrio Basin of Mexico canal central Mexico ceramics Cerro Chichimec chinampa chronological city's Ciudadela communities complex crop Cuicuilco cultivation cultural density drainage Early Horizon economic estimate evidence excavated factor figurines groups hamlets hectares huacán increase irrigation system Ixtapalapa J. R. Parsons kilometers Lake Chalco Lake Texcoco Lakeshore Plain land Late Horizon located Lower Piedmont maize major Maya Mazapan Mesoamerican meters Mexico City Middle Horizon northern nucleated Oaxaca obsidian occupation Olmec Papalotla percent Phase political population growth pre-Hispanic probably problem production rainfall residential Sanders Second Intermediate period settlement pattern social soil southern springs square kilometers structures substantial suggest survey area symbiosis temple Tenochtitlan Teoti Teotihuacán society Teotihuacán Valley terraces Texcoco area Tezoyuca tion Tlamimilolpa Tlapacoya Tlatilco trade Tula Tzacualli Upper Piedmont urban Valley of Mexico Ventilla villages Xochimilco zone