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<< Our Photo Pages >> Xochicalco - Ancient Village or Settlement in Mexico in Morelos

Submitted by AlexHunger on Monday, 27 September 2010  Page Views: 9535

Multi-periodSite Name: Xochicalco
Country: Mexico Region: Morelos Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Cuernavaca  Nearest Village: Cuernavaca
Latitude: 18.803537N  Longitude: 99.296208W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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.
4 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
5

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Xochicalco
Xochicalco submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec and earlier city south of Mexico City. 5th Pyramid seen from top of hill. Scaned pictures from 1982. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Town in Morelos State.
Site started in about 300 CE with Olmec and Toltec influences. There is a ball court and temples.

Note: See comment. Ceremonial stone roadway out of Pre-Hispanic city may be part of Symbolic Cosmological Map.
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Xochicalco submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec and earlier city south of Mexico City. Reliefs from 1st Pyramid. Scaned pictures from 1982. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Xochicalco submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec and earlier city south of Mexico City. east end of ball court. Scaned pictures from 1982. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Xochicalco submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec and earlier city south of Mexico City. Stele in front of 1st pyramid. Scaned pictures from 1982. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Xochicalco submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec and earlier city south of Mexico City. Scaned pictures from 1982. Yours truly in the bullseye. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Xochicalco, Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent Photo. Enriqueta Rodríguez Carrington Image copyright: José Arnoldo (José Arnoldo Rodríguez Carrington), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Otra mirada a Xochicalco. Image copyright: rodolfoaraiza.com (Rodolfo Araiza G.), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Dorado Xochicalca Site in Morelos Mexico Image copyright: linkogecko (David Cabrera), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Viaje vacacional a Cuernavaca, Xoxhicalco y Las Mañanitas Image copyright: Christian González Verón (Christian Ramiro González Verón), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Xochicalco es un sitio arqueológico que se ubica en los municipios de Temixco y Miacatlán estado de Morelos, México, a 38 km al sudoeste de la ciudad de Cuernavaca. Fue declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1999. El apogeo de Xochicalco tiene lugar en el periodo llamado Epiclásico (650 - 900). Durante este lapso se construyó la mayoría de la arquitectura monumental visible ho...

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Xochicalco submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec and earlier city south of Mexico City. Side of 1st Pyramid. Scaned pictures from 1982.

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Xochicalco submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Aztec and earlier city south of Mexico City. Front of 1st Pyramid Scaned pictures from 1982.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Viaje vacacional a Cuernavaca, Xoxhicalco y Las Mañanitas Image copyright: Christian González Verón (Christian Ramiro González Verón), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Museo de Zona Arqueológica de Xochicalco Image copyright: Esthephani, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Viaje vacacional a Cuernavaca, Xoxhicalco y Las Mañanitas Image copyright: Christian González Verón (Christian Ramiro González Verón), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Museo de Zona Arqueológica de Xochicalco Site in Morelos Mexico Image copyright: Esthephani, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco Image copyright: gerard0 (Gerardo Curiel), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Xochicalco I Site in Morelos Mexico Image copyright: Luriok (Luis Ricardo Campos), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "Prehistoric America; 2" via archive.org Site in Morelos Mexico

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Xochicalco Site in Morelos Mexico Image copyright: Brian Griffin (Brian L. Griffin), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Site in Morelos Mexico Image copyright: duelin markers (john hume), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Xochicalco Museum Site in Morelos Mexico Image copyright: Brian Griffin (Brian L. Griffin), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr

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Xochicalco submitted by Flickr : Cara Obsidiana Image copyright: linkogecko (David Cabrera), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Prehispanic Mexican Roadway Explored by Archaeologists by bat400 on Monday, 27 September 2010
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A Prehispanic roadway that leads to a temple built atop Coatzin Hill, in Xochicalco is being explored by archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). The study of the nearly 240 meters-long ceremonial road broadens the research area of the site located in the Mexican state of Morelos. Labors began in July 2010. The ancient paved roadway that leads to the top of La Bodega or Coatzin Hill, to the east of the monumental Prehispanic city of Xochicalco was cleaned from weed. An unexcavated temple is found there, with features similar to those of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid.

Archaeologist Marco Antonio Santos, director of Xochicalco Archaeological Zone, informed that 17th century chronicles give account of the roadway and the construction, as well as a 1980 sketch and photographs of the 1930’s decade, “that show the road covered with weed until now, that PET work has cleaned it up, providing information about the longitude, width, composition and architectural description”.

The archaeologist pointed out that the rediscovery changes Xochicalco settlement pattern hypothesis, which indicated that ceremonial structures were located in the center while dwellings of artisans and farmers were constructed in the suburbs.

“The roadway is delimited by two 1.5 meters-high limestone walls, covered with andesite and stucco; in the middle of the road, a 5 meters-wide paving is located, suggesting that Xochicalco dwellers gave a ceremonial use to this road, which is completely different from the other 4 roadways found at the monumental area”.

The INAH archaeologist deduces that the roadway began being constructed at the same time as the central part of Xochicalco, because it also has several constructive stages; its chronology has been determined between 650 and 900 AD, the same as the site part of the list of World Heritage issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) since 1999.

He remarked that this new data allows reconstructing Xochicalco history; 100 years after the exploration of the site begun, only a 10 per cent of the city is known.

The director of the archaeological zone considered that the roadway led to an important sacred area located in the highest point of Xochicalco, from where there’s a view of the zone, and where a temple dedicated to Quetzatcoatl, not explored yet, is found.

“We used to think that temples devoted to cult were located in the center and that people dwelled the nearby hills, but we see that hills were also sacred places. Now we ask, where did the people dwell? We must find other places where they could have settled, and determine exactly the extension of the site”, he remarked.

Once again, it has been verified that Xochicalco was built as a mirror of the universe, in symbolic terms, where buildings are aligned with some point in the horizon related to the rise of the Sun, the Moon or planets, determining the design of the city.

“We know this roadway and the atop temple have astronomical vocation because during the cleaning process a stele was located; it presented certain degradation at the center of one of its faces; this may indicate it was used as an astronomic marker that signalized, by the play of light and shadow, an important date of Mesoamerican calendar”.

The 1.5 meters high stele was created with andesite and its 4 faces were carved and painted red. It was found lying at the inferior part of the roadway. Santos informed that besides the stele, 5 architectonic elements that might have been elements of the superior part of temple, elaborated with the same decorative technique as the stele, were found.

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