Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Plates
Preface
Acknowledgments
The First Valley of Mexico Conference 1960
Working Out the Survey Methodology, 1960-1964
A Critique
The Organization of this Monograph
The Zumpango Region in the Valley of Mexico
Environmental Zones in the Zumpango Region
Modern and Historic Climate in the Zumpango Region
Paleoclimatological Studies
The Twentieth Century
The Zumpango Region on the Eve of Spanish Conquest
The Colonial Period (1521-1810)
The Nineteenth Century
Summary and Conclusions
Surface Conditions-Potentials and Problems for Regional Surface Survey in the Zumpango Region
Survey Methodology
Laboratory Procedures in Mexico
Site Classification
Chronology
Trends in Numbers of Sites, Numbers of Occupied Hectares, and Population
Occupation by Environmental Zone
Occupation by Site Type
The Spatial Configuration of Settlement
Overall Summary and Conclusions
Geoarchaeological Study
Study of Water-Control Technology
Maintenance and Restudy of Curated Collections
Can We Proceed in the Face of Massive Site Destruction and Landscape Transformation?
Chapter 7. Resumen en Espanol de los Principales Conclusiones, translated by A.H. Parsons
Bibliography
Appendix A. The Site Descriptions, by J.R. Parsons, M.H. Parsons, and D.J. Wilson
Terminal Formative Sites
Classic Sites
Early Toltec Sites
Late Toltec Sites
Aztec Sites
The Late Formative
Terminal Formative (Tzacualli Phase)
Classic
Early Toltec
Late Toltec
Early and Late Aztec