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Public Ritual and Urbanization in Central Mexico: Temple and Plaza Offerings from La Laguna, Tlaxcala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2012

David M. Carballo
David M. Carballo*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA Email: carballo@bu.edu
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Abstract

Urbanization of the world's first cities involved the social integration of greater scales of community membership as well as the social differentiation of individuals along the continua of wealth, power, and occupational specialization that define urban landscapes. This article considers the causal role of public ritual in these processes during the period of incipient urbanism in central Mexico (c. 600 BC–AD 100) by examining temple and plaza offerings at La Laguna, a town within an urbanizing cultural landscape whose inhabitants participated in the transformative exchanges that resulted in urban state capitals such as Teotihuacan.

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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , October 2012 , pp. 329 - 352
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2012

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