Early–middle Formative Period Subsistence in the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
Pre-Hispanic Plant Remains From Altica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6034141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Mcclung De Tapia (0000-0003-1684-1069, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, corresponding author), Guillermo Acosta Ochoa (0000-0002-6928-3454, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa, Diana Martínez-Yrizar (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Carmen Cristina Adriano-Morán (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Jorge Cruz-Palma, Jorge Ezra Cruz-Palma (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Berenice Chaparro-Rueda (National Institute of Anthropology and History) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 339-354 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ancient Mesoamerica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0956-5361 • E-ISSN: 1469-1787 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0956536118000548 |
| OpenAlex | W2968134755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 35 |
Recent excavations at the Early–Middle Formative period site of Altica in the southern piedmont of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico, provide evidence for early agriculture and plant use in a rural community in the northern Basin of Mexico. In the Basin of Mexico, settled agricultural communities were present in the southern sector of the region from at least 1200 calb.c.Initial expansion into the semiarid northern sector of the Basin, however, appears to have taken place towards the end of the Early Formative, during the transition to the Middle Formative when agricultural economies based on maize cultivation became firmly established, setting the scene for increased population density and concomitant social complexity.Altica is currently the only community in the Teotihuacan Valley spanning this transitional period that has survived in the face of intensive changes in land use over the last three millennia. Macro- and microbotanical evidence recovered from radiocarbon-dated excavated contexts at Altica provide evidence for maize cultivation and suggest a subsistence economy in transition, prior to the establishment of intensive dependence upon a broader range of domesticated and cultivated plants
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Domestication · Geography · Mesoamerica · Population · Radiocarbon dating · Structural basin · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Geology · Paleontology
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The Household Functions of Obsidian Tools From the Early–middle Formative Village of Altica, Mexico
The Altica Project
A Glimpse of the People of Altica
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Holocene Paleoenvironment and Prehispanic Landscape Evolution in the Basin of Mexico
Intensive Agriculture and Early Complex Societies of the Basin of Mexico
The Altica Project
A Glimpse of the People of Altica
The potential of paleoethnobotanical evidence for the study of Teotihuacan foodways
Los orígenes prehispánicos de una tradición alimentaria en la cuenca de méxico
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |