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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE NORTHERN PORTION OF ANCIENT TULA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2021

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Fernando Getino Granados*
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Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City
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Abstract

Salvage excavations along the right of way of a 2 km stretch of proposed highway crossing the northern part of the Postclassic city of Tula, Hidalgo utilized a multi-phase investigation strategy, featuring pedestrian survey and exploratory test-pitting. This fieldwork led to extensive excavation in five localities, which uncovered significant portions of both elite and non-elite residential compounds, a possible administrative structure, and two temples, one of which is the earliest example of a twin temple pyramid in western Mesoamerica. The diversity of structures and corresponding functions encountered in excavation are comparable to those found in previous excavations that suggest the city was organized into barrios, each with its own political, religious, social, and other institutions that mimic those of the larger urban polity. While these investigations confirm previous evidence of considerable destruction of the ancient city in recent decades, they also demonstrate that significant portions are still intact.

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Special Section: Tula in the Twenty-First Century: New Data, New Perspectives, New Insights
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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Spring 2021 , pp. 118 - 133
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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