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<< Text Pages >> Sacapu Angamuco - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 29 August 2012  Page Views: 5290

Multi-periodSite Name: Sacapu Angamuco Alternative Name: Angamuco
Country: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 70.259 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Patzcuaro  Nearest Village: Chapultepec
Latitude: 19.578800N  Longitude: 101.5025W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Town in Michoacán State.
Early-Middle Post Classical urban center (900AD - 1350 AD) in the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin. Sacapu Angamuco has only recently been re-discovered as part of a larger project to survey the lake basin. This area was the heart of what later became the Purépecha (Tarascan) State, a political contemporary and rival to the Aztec (Triple Alliance) Empire.


Sacapu Angamuco is one of several towns known to have been built on the edges of ancient lava flows. It contains many plazas, residential dwellings, and some temple and small pyramid sites. These structures were built from the materials of the lava flow and used the natural configuration of the flow to clear areas and build in pockets which had collected soil and organic materials to allow agriculture.
Few structures are now intact. Many have been dismantaled for more modern buildings, and the area is frequently overgrown by small trees and brush.
Excavations are on-going by researchers from Colorada State University.

Ground surveys and LiDar analysis have revealed 20,000 structures and an estiate of a population of 25,000.
The location given is for a temple area designated BG-20.

Note: Lidar archaeology shines a light on hidden sites.
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Re: Sacapu Angamuco by davidmorgan on Saturday, 28 December 2019
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Here's a 2018 article in The Guardian - Laser scanning reveals 'lost' ancient Mexican city 'had as many buildings as Manhattan'.

Using lidar, researchers have found that the recently-discovered city, known as Angamuco, was more than double the size of Tzintzuntzan – although probably not as densely populated – extending over 26 km2 of ground that was covered by a lava flow thousands of years ago.

“That is a huge area with a lot of people and a lot of architectural foundations that are represented,” said Fisher. “If you do the maths, all of a sudden you are talking about 40,000 building foundations up there, which is [about] the same number of building foundations that are on the island of Manhattan.”
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Fisher and Leisz paper appears in Collection on Archaeological Mapping from Space by bat400 on Tuesday, 10 September 2013
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"New Perspectives on Purépecha Urbanism Through the Use of LiDAR at the Site of Angamuco, Mexico" by Christopher T. Fisher, Stephen J. Leisz. printed as a chapter of Springer Briefs in Archaeology: Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space, 2013.

Abstract: Advances in LiDAR technology promise to change the way that ancient architectural remains are documented, analyzed, and managed at Mesoamerican urban centers. Here we discuss the way that LiDAR has helped document the location, temporal associations, and spatial arrangement of ancient architecture at the Purépecha city of Angamuco, located within the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico. Angamuco occupies a rugged topographic feature that has served to preserve ancient architectural features to a degree not typically seen within the region. As a supplement to full-coverage survey we obtained dense LiDAR data for 9 sq km of the settlement that clearly show over 20,000 architectural features from the urban core of the city. Through the use of LiDAR we were able to more quickly and accurately determine the size of the ancient city, better document the type and distribution of ancient features, and significantly change the manner in which we conducted the survey.
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Widespread Lidar surveys reveal Mesoamerican landscape densely populated by bat400 on Wednesday, 29 August 2012
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A BBC story of Lidar survey technology describes the recognition of the size of Sacapu Angamuco in the 1300's AD.

A team from Colorado State University has also used the technique in the Patzcuaro Basin, a region in the west of Mexico. The area was the centre of the Purepecha Empire – contemporaries of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations that have never caught public attention. They can be thought of as the people who stopped the advance of the Aztecs into San Diego and were also famous for their intricate metal work.

In 2007, Colorado State University professor Chris Fisher began investigating the area. That year, he and his team found some impressive treasures including an imperial treasury building, where the leaders kept their stores of hummingbird and macaw feathers, the dominant currency. A year later, equipped with handheld GPS units his team spent three months on foot mapping the area in search of other treats. But, what they uncovered surprised even them.

At a spot in an ancient road that previous surveys had marked down as little more than a widening of the carriageway, the team began to uncover evidence of buildings. Lots of buildings. Over three months, the team of between 12 and 16 people unearthed evidence for more than 1,400 buildings. It seemed that the wide spot in the road was in reality a surprisingly large pre-Hispanic capital.

But it wasn’t until last year that Fisher and his team would know just how big. Equipped with Lidar the team flew over that spot recording 3,000 buildings in half the time it had taken them with ground surveys.

“When Lidar was first used at Angamuco we had no idea how large the area was that included buildings and structures, if it was even a city,” team member Professor Steve Leisz told the BBC. Perhaps more surprisingly the team also found a ball court for a Meso American game called pok-ta-pok, and pyramids, including one that Fisher had walked within 10m of the previous year.

For more, see http://www.bbc.com. The section on Angamuco starts on the 2nd page.
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