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The Localization of the Sixteenth Century Map Called the Maguey Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Edward E. Calnek
Edward E. Calnek*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester
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Abstract

Sanders (1970) has recently attempted to analyze settlement pattern and demography at the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, on the assumption that an early map called the Maguey plan represents a part of the city. A careful analysis of the physical layout of the community shown on the map, and of several written and pictographic glosses added sometime after the original map was completed, supports the view that the Maguey plan actually shows an island settlement located in a region which had been expropriated by Tenochtitlan following that city's conquest of Azcapotzalco in the early fifteenth century.

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American Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 1973 , pp. 190 - 195
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1973

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