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Valley of Mexico

From the Archaic Period through the Post Classic Period the valley of Mexico has been occupied. There are some locations which date back to the Paleo-indian Period.



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Tula The city rose to power after the collapse of Teotihuacan to take control of the basin of Mexico at approximately 968 C.E.
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Teotihuacan the archaeological site is located in what is now San Juan Teotihuacan municipality in the State of Mexico.
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Tepexpan is known for the 'Tepexpan Man' a human skeleton of a woman buried face down with her knees bent under
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Tlapacoya is an important archaeological site in Mexico, located at the foot of the Tlapacoya volcano, southeast of
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Alzati The pre-Hispanic name of this place is not known; during the colonial time it was called San Felipe Calvario and in
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In AD 1325 the wandering Mexica tribe known to us as the Aztecs founded their great city of Tenochtitlán. According to legend,
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The people who lived in Cacaxtla during this time were a mixed people olmeca-xicalanca, also known as "late olmecas".
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Located in the modern town of the same name in western Morelos. Coatetelco was a medium-sized urban site in the Late Aztec
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The Yautepec palace is the only Aztec royal palace to be extensively excavated by archaeologists. It is a large mound (nearly
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The most important center of the Mexican highlands after the fall of Teotihuacan was Cholula, near the twin volcanic peaks
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Iztapan (Santa Isabel Iztapan) is the location of two imperial mammoth (Mammuthus imperator) finds, one in 1952 and
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Tlatilco was a large pre-Columbian village in the Valley of Mexico situated near the modern-day town of the same name in the
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Xochicalco (Nahuatl pronunciation: jotjikalko) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Miacatlam
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xochipala

Xochipala The archaeological zone is in the semi-arid and mountainous region in the center of the state of Guerrero. The
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Around 1486, probably on the ascendancy of the Aztec leader Ahuizotl, work commenced on the site above Malinalco. It is believed that it
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chalcatzingo

Chalcatzingo is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Morelos dating from the Formative Period of Mesoamerican chronology. The site is well-known for its extensive array of Olmec-style monumental art and iconography.
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