No. 63 (2021)
Artículos

¿Por qué la cerámica Azteca II Negro sobre Naranja es escasa en la región de Zumpango? Una perspectiva regional desde la Cuenca de México sobre el colapso de Tula y sus repercusiones

PDF (Spanish)
  • Jeffrey R. Parsons,
  • L.J. Gorenflo
Jeffrey R. Parsons
Universidad de Michigan
L.J. Gorenflo
Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania

Published 2023-09-19

Keywords

  • Settlement pattern,
  • Chalco,
  • Tollan-Mazapan ceramic complex,
  • Azteca I, II, III ceramic complex,
  • Culhuacán,
  • Tula,
  • Xaltocán-Zumpango
    • ...More
    Less

How to Cite

¿Por qué la cerámica Azteca II Negro sobre Naranja es escasa en la región de Zumpango? Una perspectiva regional desde la Cuenca de México sobre el colapso de Tula y sus repercusiones. (2023). Arqueología, 63, 110-127. https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/arqueologia/article/view/19843

Abstract

Archaeologists have long pondered the significance of the scarcity of Aztec I and II Black-on-Orange ceramics in the northern third of the Basin of Mexico. These ceramic types are abundant only in the southern third of the Basin, with a puzzling northward extension into Xaltocan.
The southern Basin is also the only region where both Aztec I and II ceramics co-exist with ceramic complexes designated as Tollan and Mazapan farther north. Several hypotheses have been advanced, including (1) major population decline in the northern Basin following the collapse of Tula in the 12th century A.D.; (2) Aztec I and II were being produced at the same time as the Early Postclassic ceramic complexes designated as Tollan and Mazapan; (3) Aztec II Black-on-Orange had only a very short period of popularity; and 4) because of its dry climate, the northern Basin could not sustain a large population except during periods of centralized socio-political organization. This paper evaluates these inter-related hypotheses and considers whether it might be useful to apply a modified form of the Andean concept of “verticality.”

PDF (Spanish)

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

  1. Acosta, J. (1940) Exploraciones en Tula, Hgo. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos, 4 (3): 172-194.
  2. Acosta, J. (1941) Los últimos descubrimientos arqueológicos en Tula, Hgo., 1941. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos, 5 (2-3): 239-243.
  3. Acosta, J. (1944) La tercera temporada de exploraciones arqueológicas en Tula, Hgo., 1942. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos, 6 (3): 125-164.
  4. Acosta, J. (1945) La cuarta y quinta temporada de exploraciones arqueológicas en Tula, Hgo., 1943 y 1944. Revista Mexicana de Estudio s Antropológicos, 7: 23-64.
  5. Acosta, J. (1952) Review of Griffin and Espejo (1947, 1950). Boletín Bibliográfico de Antropología Americana, 15: 76-77. México.
  6. Blanton, R. (1972) Prehispanic Settlement Patterns of the Ixtapalapa Peninsula Region, Mexico. Occasional Papers in Anthropology, (6). Department of Anthropology-The Pennsylvania State University / University Park.
  7. Boas, F., y M. Gamio (1921) Álbum de colecciones arqueológicas. Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnografía, México. Facsímil 1990, México, INAH.
  8. Brenner, A. (1931) The Influence of Technique on the Decorative Style in the Domestic Pottery of Culhuacan. Columbia University (Contributions to Anthropology, 13). Reimpreso en 1969 por AMS Press, Nueva York.
  9. Brumfiel, E. (2005a) Opting in and Opting Out: Tula, Cholula, and Xaltocan. En R.E. Blanton (ed.), Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Complexity: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Jeffrey R. Parsons (pp. 63-88). Los Angeles, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology-University of California,
  10. Brumfiel, E. (2005b) Ceramic Chronology at Xaltocan. En E. Brumfiel (ed.), Production and Power at Postclassic Xaltocan (pp. 117-152). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania y México, University of Pittsburgh / INAH (serie Arqueología de México).
  11. Carrasco, P. (1980) La aplicabilidad a Mesoamérica del modelo andino de verticalidad. Revista de la Universidad Complutense, (117): 237-243.
  12. Carrasco, P. (1999) The Tenocha Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press.
  13. Charlton, T., D. Nichols, y C. Otis Charlton (2000) Otumba and its Neighbors. Ex Oriente Lux. Ancient Mesoamerica, 11 (2): 247- 265.
  14. Cobean, R. (1978) The Pre-Aztec Ceramics of Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. Tesis de doctorado. Department of Anthropology-Harvard University, Cambridge.
  15. Cobean, R. (1990) La cerámica de Tula, Hidalgo. México, INAH (Científica, 215).
  16. Cobean, R., y Alba G. Mastache (1999) Tepetitlán, A Rural Household in the Toltec Heartland. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania y México, University of Pittsburgh / INAH (serie Arqueología de México).
  17. Cowgill, G. (1996) Discussion. Ancient Mesoamerica, 7 (2): 325-331.
  18. Franco, J. (1945) Comentarios sobre tipología y filogenia de la decoración negro sobre color natural del barro en la cerámica Azteca II. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos, 7 (1, 2 y 3): 163-186.
  19. Franco, J. (1949) Algunos problemas relativos a la cerámica azteca. El México Antiguo, 7: 162-208.
  20. Franco, J., y F. Peterson (1957) Motivos decorativos en la cerámica azteca. México, Museo Nacional de Antropología (Científica, 5).
  21. García, R. (2004) De Tula a Azcapotzalco: Caracterización arqueológica de los altepetl de la Cuenca de México del Posclásico temprano y medio, a través del estudio cerámico regional. Tesis de doctorado. FFyL / Coordinación General de Estudios de Posgrado, UNAM, México.
  22. Gorenflo, L. (2006) The Evolution of Regional Demography and Settlement in the Prehispanic Basin of Mexico. En G. Storey (ed.), Population and Preindustrial Cities: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 295-314). Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press.
  23. Gorenflo, L. (2015) Compilation and Analysis of Pre-Columbian Settlement Data in the Basin of Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica, 26 (1): 197-212.
  24. Gorenflo, L.J., y W.T. Sanders (2007) Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Cuautitlan, Temascalapa, and Teotihuacan Regions, Mexico. Occasional Papers in Anthropology, (30). Department of Anthropology-The Pennsylvania State University / University Park.
  25. Griffin, J., y A. Espejo (1947) La alfarería correspondiente al último periodo de ocupación nahua del valle de México, I. Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia, 6 (2): 3-20.
  26. Griffin, J., y A. Espejo (1950) La alfarería correspondiente al último periodo de ocupación nahua del valle de México, II. Memorias de la Academia Mexicana de la Historia, 9 (1): 3-54.
  27. Hare, T., y M. Smith (1996) A New Postclassic Chronology for Yautepec, Morelos. Ancient Mesoamerica, 7 (2): 281-297.
  28. Hodge, M. (1984) Aztec City States. Memoir (18). Ann Arbor, Museum of Anthropology-University of Michigan.
  29. Hodge, M. (1998) Archaeological Views of Aztec Culture. Journal of Archaeological Research, 6 (3): 197-238.
  30. Hodge, M. (ed.) (2008) Place of Jade: Society and Economy in Ancient Chalco, Mexico. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania y México, University of Pittsburgh / INAH (Arqueología de México).
  31. Hodge, M., y H. Neff (2005) Xaltocan in the Economy of the Basin of Mexico: A View from Ceramic Tradewares. En E. Brumfiel (ed.), Production and Power at Postclassic Xaltocan (pp. 319-348). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania y México, University of Pittsburgh / INAH (Arqueología de México).
  32. Hodge, M., y L. Minc (1991) Aztec-Period Ceramic Distribution and Exchange Systems. Report submitted to the National Science Foundation. Washington, D.C., National Science Foundation.
  33. Jiménez, W. (1954) Síntesis de la historia precolonial del Valle de México. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos, 14 (1): 219-236.
  34. Mastache, G., A. Crespo, R. Cobean, y D. Healan (1982) Estudios sobre la antigua ciudad de Tula. México, INAH.
  35. Mastache, G., R. Cobean, y D. Healan (2002) Ancient Tollan: Tula and the Toltec Heartland. Boulder, University Press of Colorado.
  36. Mastache, G., y A. Crespo (1974) La ocupación prehispánica en el área de Tula, Hgo. En E. Matos (ed.), Proyecto Tula, 1a. parte (pp. 71-104). México, INAH.
  37. Mayer-Oakes, W. (1959) A Stratigraphic Excavation at El Risco, Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 103 (3). Filadelfia, Pennsylvania.
  38. McCafferty, G. (2001) Ceramics at Postclassic Cholula, Mexico: Typology and Seriation of Pottery From the UA-1 Domestic Compound. Monograph, (43). Los Angeles, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology-University of California at Los Angeles.
  39. Minc, L. (1994) Political Economy and Market Economy under Aztec Rule: A Regional Perspective based on Decorated Ceramic Production and Distribution Systems in the Valley of Mexico. Tesis de doctorado. Ann Arbor, Department of Anthropology-University of Michigan.
  40. Minc, L., M. Hodge, y J. Blackman (1994) Stylistic and Spatial Variability in Early Aztec Ceramics: Insights into Pre-imperial Exchange Systems. En M. Hodge y M. Smith (eds.), Economies and Polities in the Aztec Realm (pp. 133-173). Albany, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies-State University of New York.
  41. Müller, F. (1952) Las cerámicas del horizonte-culturales locales. En S. Tax (ed.), Selected Papers of the 29th International Congress of Americanists. The Civilizations of Ancient America (pp. 43-51). Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press.
  42. Müller, F. (1978) La alfarería de Cholula, México. México, SEP-INAH.
  43. Murra, J. (1972) El ‘control vertical’ de un máximo de pisos ecológicos en la economía de las sociedades andinas. En J. Murra (ed.), Visita de la Provincia de León de Huánuco en 1562. Íñigo Ortiz de Zuñiga, Visitador, vol. 2 (pp. 427-476). Huánuco, Perú, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizán.
  44. Nichols, D., y T. Charlton (1996) The Postclassic Occupation at Otumba: A Chronological Assessment. Ancient Mesoamerica, 7 (2): 231-244.
  45. Noguera, E. (1935) La cerámica de Tenayuca y las excavaciones estratigráficas. En Tenayuca (pp. 141-201). México, Departamento de Monumentos-SEP.
  46. Noguera, E. (1954) La cerámica arqueológica de Cholula. México, Editorial Guarania.
  47. Norr, L. (1987) Postclassic Artifacts from Tetla. En D. Grove (ed.), Ancient Chalcatzingo (pp. 525-546). Austin, University of Texas Press.
  48. O’Neill, G. (1962) Postclassic Ceramic Stratigraphy at Chalco in the Valley of Mexico. Tesis de doctorado. Department of Anthropology-Columbia University / University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.
  49. Parsons, J. (1966) The Aztec Ceramic Sequence in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico. Tesis de doctorado. Department of Anthropology-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  50. Parsons, J. (1971) Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Texcoco Region, Mexico. Memoir, 3. Ann Arbor, Museum of Anthropology-University of Michigan.
  51. Parsons, J. (2008) Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico: The Zumpango Region. Memoir, 45. Ann Arbor, Museum of Anthropology-University of Michigan.
  52. Parsons, J., E. Brumfiel, M. Parsons, V. Popper, y M. Taft (1982) Late Prehispanic Chinampa Agriculture on Lake Chalco-Xochimilco, Mexico. Preliminary report submitted to the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia National, México, and to the Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Ann Arbor, Museum of Anthropology-University of Michigan.
  53. Parsons, J., E. Brumfiel, M. Parsons, y D. Wilson (1982) Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: the Chalco-Xochimilco Region. Memoir, 14. Ann Arbor, Museum of Anthropology-University of Michigan.
  54. Parsons, J., E. Brumfiel, y M. Hodge (1996) Developmental Implications of Earlier Dates for Early Aztec in the Basin of Mexico. Ancient Mesoamerica, 7: 217-230.
  55. Parsons, J., M. Parsons, V. Popper, y M. Taft (1985) Chinampa Agriculture and Aztec Urbanization in the Valley of Mexico. En I. Farrington (ed.), Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics (pp. 49-96). Oxford, U.K., B.A.R. International (Series, 232).
  56. Plunket, P. (1990) Arqueología y etnohistoria en el Valle de Atlixco. Notas Mesoamericanas, 12: 3-18.
  57. Sanders, W. (1965) The Cultural Ecology of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico. Department of Sociology and Anthropology-The Pennsylvania State University / University Park.
  58. Sanders, W. (ed.) (1986) The Toltec Period Occupation of the Valley. Part 1: Excavations and Ceramics. En The Teotihuacan Valley Project, Final Report, vol. 4. Department of Anthropology-The Pennsylvania State University / University Park (Occasional Papers in Anthropology, 13).
  59. Sanders, W., J. Parsons, y R. Santley (1979) The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization. Nueva York, Academic Press.
  60. Séjourné, L. (1970) Arqueología del Valle de México, I: Culhuacán. México, INAH.
  61. Séjourné, L. (1983) Arqueología e historia del Valle de México, de Xochimilco a Amecameca. México, Siglo Veintiuno.
  62. Smith, M. (1983) Postclassic Culture Change in Western Morelos, Mexico: The Development and Correlation of Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Chronologies. Tesis de doctorado. Ann Arbor, Champaign/Urbana, Department of Anthropology- University of Illinois / University Microfilms.
  63. Smith, M. (2000) Postclassic Developments at Xochicalco. En K. Hirth (ed.), Archaeological Research at Xochicalco, vol. 2: The Xochicalco Mapping Project (pp. 167-183). Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press.
  64. Sugiura, Y. (2005) Historia de los asentamientos en el Valle de Toluca. México, IIA-UNAM.
  65. Tolstoy, P. (1958) Surface Survey in the Northern Valley of Mexico: The Classic and Postclassic Periods. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 48 (5). Filadelfia, Pennsylvania.
  66. Tovalín, A. (1998) Desarrollo arquitectónico del sitio arqueológico de Tlalpizahuac. México, INAH (Científica, 348).
  67. Vaillant, G. (1938) A Correlation of Archaeological and Historical Sequences in the Valley of Mexico. American Anthropologist, 40 (4): 535-573.