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A Prehispanic Irrigation System near Santa Clara Xalostoc in the Basin of Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William T. Sanders  and
Robert S. Santley
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Abstract

A major theoretical issue in studies of the cultural ecology of Central Mexico has been the role of irrigation in the evolution of the state in that area. A major methodological problem has been the location and dating of prehistoric canal systems. A recent discovery near Xalostoc, of a stratified canal system (representing three distinct periods) in the exposed profiles of contemporary adobe extraction pits, offers an ideal situation for dating of prehistoric canals. All three are apparently Pre-Coyotlatelco in date and the settlement history suggests that some of them are contemporary with Teotihuacan.

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American Antiquity , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 1977 , pp. 582 - 588
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1977

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