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THE ROLE OF LATE PRE-CONTACT COLONIAL ENCLAVES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POSTCLASSIC UCAREO VALLEY, MICHOACAN, MEXICO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2008

Christine L. Hernández  and
Dan M. Healan
Christine L. Hernández*
Affiliation:
Christine L. Hernández, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 4th Floor, Dinwiddie Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Dan M. Healan
Affiliation:
Dan M. Healan, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 1326 Audubon Street, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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E-mail correspondence to:[email protected]
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Abstract

According to ethnohistoric sources, northeastern Michoacan became incorporated into the eastern frontier of the Tarascan empire during the mid-1400s. At that time, the region was multiethnic in character, with enclaves of foreigners living within communities as well as making up whole communities. Recent investigation in the Ucareo-Zinapecuaro source area uncovered evidence of an earlier foreign enclave consisting of two settlements in the Ucareo Valley whose ceramics are distinct from those of neighboring sites while indistinguishable from those of Epiclassic Huamango in the Acambay region of the Toluca Basin. The implications of these data alongside Ucareo obsidian exploitation and its role in the construction of the Protohistoric Tarascan–Aztec frontier are considered along with the results of preliminary chronometric dating.

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Special Section: Recent Research on the Emergence of the Tarascan State
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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , Fall 2008 , pp. 265 - 282
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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