Aztec-Style Ceramic Figurines from Yautepec, Morelos
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Small ceramic figurines were common components of domestic artifact inventories at Aztec archaeological sites. These objects provide important evidence in the investigation of Aztec domestic ritual (Smith 2002). a realm poorly represented i n the abundant ethnohistoric documentation of Aztec religion. Although Aztec-style ceramic figurines are abundant both in museum collections and at archaeological sites, these artifacts remain very poorly understood today. In this paper I describe a collection of nearly 2.000 fragmentary ceramic figurines excavated at the Aztec city of Yautepec in the Mexican state of Morelos. This collection includes Aztec-style tigurines imported from the Basin of Mexico, locally-made figurines in the Aztec style, and locally-made figurines in distinctive local styles (Otis Charlton 1994). All three of thesc categories wcre present in each of four t ine periods identified at Yautepec: I ) the Pochtla phase. or Middle Postclassic period (ca AD 1100-1300). a time of city-state development in central Mexico; 2 ) the Atlan or Late Postclassic-A period (ca. AD 13001440). a time of the expansion of the Tepanec empire; 3) the Molotla phase. or Late Postclassic-B period (cu. AD 1449-1521+), which saw the expansion of the Triple Alliance empire, including the conquest of Yautcpec; 4) the Santiago phase. an early colonial time period (cii. AD 1521-1600+). 'The data presented here show clearly that Aztec figuril~es and figurine styles achieved a widespread distribution early in the chronology of Aztec society. long before the impcrial period.
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