Corporate Paint and Ancient Pharmaceutical Mixtures from Teotihuacan: the Teopancazco Neighborhood Center
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constituted the most dynamic social units of the Teotihuacan society. These neighborhoods had coordination centers, and were probably headed and managed by the intermediate elite, an entrepreneurial class who competed to bring to the city the most exotic and strange ornaments and garments for public display [4,5]. We have counted ca. 22 of these neighborhood centers in the city [6]. Numerous apartment compounds surrounded each neighborhood center.
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