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The
Cuauhtlitzin temple is called the main temple because it is the highest structure. A wide flight of stairs with lateral rafters leads to the top; vestiges of a temple are there. The pyramidal bodies of the basement are built in a slope and stuccoed. At the foot of the stairway is a badly damaged
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The ballgame court is relatively small for the game. Excavations under the main stairway of the platform found elite burials with hundreds of funeral offerings, including ceramic vessels, obsidian, jade, and copper-bronze artifacts. They also found a group of basaltic utensils for grinding corn on a
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The western platform, almost destroyed, had three structures with two stairways with side rafters. At the top of the structure are stucco floor remains and two stone "boxes". Beside the platform is a smaller platform with two steps. Stone cylinder artifacts were discovered here, but their purpose or
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stone sculpture was found in it. This is supported by the association with the circular altar and the presence of a stone called a temalacatl found in the rubble of a 16th-century chapel. This is a sacrificial stone that in the Mexica religion was related to the Xipe-Totec deity. The figure was
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The ballgame court is located behind the western platform. Its presence indicates that the place was a ceremonial center, since the ballgame had a religious purpose, as well as recreational and political purposes. Its header is closed: It is oriented north-south. The structure has traces of the
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The architectural complex consists of pyramidal bases, platforms, and a ballgame court made with an earth core and covered with carved stones. Some sections still have walls and stairs with stucco remains. The structures are distributed around a square in accordance with the site's topography.
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Coatetelco was excavated in the 1970s by archaeologist Raúl Arana, who supervised reconstruction of the architecture. Several minor excavations have been done since that time to keep the site in good condition. Ceramics from Arana’s excavations are described in a monograph. (Smith 2002, s.f.)
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Evidence from excavations show that there was human occupation at
Coatetelco since the epoch of the Teotihuacan influence (450-600 BCE) even though the remaining structures are from the Late Postclassical (1350–1521), mainly in the Mexica epoch. Buildings had four construction stages.
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The eastern platform has several semidetached buildings that possibly were altars. Its importance as a ceremonial site was confirmed with the finding of collective and individual burial places. Tombs and different kinds of offerings were found in the altar and stairs.
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Formative or Preclassical period, people lived in small villages with less than 100 inhabitants and developed farm lands near the rivers. They produced ceramics similar to those of the Basin of Mexico and the first clay figurines were also made.
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The incense altar was identified by a stone sculpture representing a female character and some clay incense burners that were found during the excavations. The form of these is easily identified in the
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Coatetelco means "place of snakes' mounds" or "place where there are erected mounds in honor of snakes". However, there are alternate spellings of the name that would carry a different meaning:
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Xochicalco declined around 1000 CE, Miacatlán became the leading center in the region. Subsequent history can be rebuilt based on written documents and codices.
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fragmented (it lacked a head and feet). It is believed that the fracture was due to the
Spanish practice of destroying artifacts from the cultures they found.
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Arana, RaĂşl. 1976 Coatetelco
Investigation. Unpublished Report submitted to the Centro Regional Morelos, Instituto Nacional de AntropologĂa e Historia.
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The extension platform is an extension of the ballgame court and the circular basement. It has a circular design and was likely dedicated to
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Coatetelco peak took place in the Late Preclassical period (500–150 BCE). At that time the communities had 250 to 500 inhabitants.
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court, a small pyramid-temple, and several other structures, clustered around a public square. There is a small site museum.
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Coatetelco was a medium-sized urban site. The central part of the city has been excavated and restored, including a
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The Xipe-Totec platform is the last portion of the semidetached basement. It was given this name because a
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199:= place of. The whole means "mound place between trees" or "tree place on a mound".
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metate, carefully arranged to the side of the ballgame court and visible today.
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214:= stone;
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145:Miacatlán
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722:See also
639:Average
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240:quahuitl
231:Tlahuica
178:cuahuitl
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113:Cultures
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