Economic Change in Morelos Households

classic Mesoamerican world system affect people's lives? And how did the actions of individuals in turn influence world-system processes? In this chapter I exarninc the linkages between large-scale world-system dynamics and individual households in an aftluent production zone of central Mexico. Morelos was an area of rich farmland whose grains and cotton-as well as bark paper, cotton textiles, and other products-were exported to the Basin of Mexico throughotlt the Middle and Late Postclassic periods. Most of the archaeological data presented here come from my excavations of Postclassic residential structures, both elite and coninloner, at the sites of Yautepec in north-central Morelos, and Cuexcomate and Capilco in western Morelos. I also draw on a study of ceramics from Postclassic sites throughout the state of Morelos (Smith roo3 ).