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ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NO. 45 MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES IN MEXICAN PREHISTORY BY MICHAEL W. SPENCE JEFFREY R. PARSONS MARY HRONES PARSONS WITH A CONTRIBUTION BY GEORGE FRAUNFELTER ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 1972 © 1972 by the Regents of the University of Michigan The Museum of Anthropology All rights reserved ISBN (print): 978-0-932206-43-5 ISBN (ebook): 978-1-951519-25-4 Browse all of our books at sites.lsa.umich.edu/archaeology-books. Order our books from the University of Michigan Press at www.press.umich.edu. For permissions, questions, or manuscript queries, contact Museum publications by email at umma- [email protected] or visit the Museum website at lsa.umich.edu/ummaa. TBALEO FC ONTENTS PrehisOpbasniidEcxi palno iitnCa etnitoMrnea xli cAPo r:e liminary SynthbeyMs iichsaW.,e S lp enacenJeffr dey R.P arsons GeneIrnatlr od.u.c.t.i.o.n. .............. ........... ThCer udzeM li laQguraor. r y. . . . . . . . . 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ThNeo palilloW-oGrukajsahl.oo .pt se. . . . . . 1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ThCee rPrniaoQl u ar.r y. . . . . . . . . . 1.9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ThTe. AQ.u7a9r .r y. . . . . . . . . . . 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ConclaunsSdip oencsu l.a t.i o.n s. . . . . . .2 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AppenOdbixs:iS dpieacni bmye ns, . . . . . 3.1 . . . . . . GeorFgrea unfelter Bibliyo g.r a.p h. . . . . . . . . . . .3 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SpinWdhloerf lrsot mh Tee otainhV ualalceMye,x ibcyo , Mary Hrones Parsons Prfaece. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TeotainhS upaicnWdhloTery lp e.s . . . . . . . .4 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . TraWdheo r.l s. . . . . . . . . . . . .5 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CultIumrpalli c.a t.i o.n .s . . . . . . . . 57. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FramefowroF rukt uRrees ea.r c.h . . . . . . . 6.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AppenAdC ioxm:p arwiistSohpn in dWlheo frrolmst hTee xcRoecgoi on Sueryv1,9 67. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AzteFci gurfrionmte hsTe e otainhV uaalclMeeyxi,cb oy, MaryHro nes Parsons Itnroduc.t .i o.n . . . . . . . . . . .8 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TypIe- Hollow Rat.t l.e . F.i g.u r.i n.e .s . 8.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TypIeI -JoFiingtuerd.i n.e s. . . . . . . . .8 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TypIeI I-FSiogluird.i n.e s. . . . . . . . .8 .9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Postt-aCFcoitng ur.i n.e .s . . . . . . . . 1.1 0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AniFmiaglu r.i n.e s. . . . . . . . . . 1.1 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SerpHeenaItdn ceBnusreHn aenrd .l e.s . . . . . .1 1.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . Conclu.s i.o n. . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 .4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AppenAzdtieFxci: g ufrroimnt ehTsee xcRoecgoSi uornv 1e9y6,7 119 Biblaipoh.gy r . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProveanniNdee ngcaeNt uimvbeoe fPr l ates . . . . .1 6.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (Spence and Parsons) Figures 1. The Central Mexican Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Quarry Areas and Workshop Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Late Postclassic Censer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Plates (p.37ff) 1. Mine and Workshop Artifacts from T.A.79 and Cruz del Milagro 37 2. Workshop Site Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 3. Workshop Site Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4. Flacco-like Point from Cruz del Milagro Site 2 ............. 40 0 5. Projectile Points from Workshop Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 6. T.A.79 Artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 7 A. Debris of Site 9, Area A, Cruz del Milagro ............... 43 0 B. Area B Debris Pile, Cruz del Milagro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 (M. H. Parsons) Figures 1. Type I Spindle Whorl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 2. Various Spindle Whorl Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 3. Various Spindle Whorl Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 4. Type I-H Spindle Whorl ......... 51 0 ••••••••••• 0 • • • • • • • 5. Rubbings Made From Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 6. Type VIla Whorl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 7. Type VIII Whorl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 8. Relationship Between the Hole Diameter and Weight of the Major Spindle Whorl Types ..................... 58 0 • • • • • • • • • 9. Relationship Between the Total Diameter and the Hole Diameter of the Major Spindle Whorl Types . . . . . 59 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 10. Relationship Between the Total Whorl Diameter and the Weight of the Major Spindle Whorl Types . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 0 • • • • • • • ••• 0 11. Comparison of the Hole Diameters of the Three Major Spindle Whorl Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 12. Comparison of the Total Whorl Diameters of the Three Major Spindle Whorl Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • 13. Comparison of the Weights of the Three Major Spindle Whorl Types 64 14. Type I-A, Hollow Rattle Figurine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 15. Mazapan Figurine with Entwined Snake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 16. Type II-A1, Xochiquetzal with Elaborate Skirt .... 90 0 • • • • • • • • • iv 17. Typeiii-B1,Xochiquetzal ............................ 94 18. Type III-E1, Com Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 19. Type III-W2, Xochipilli on Top of Pyramid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 20. Type III-W2, Macuixochitl Head on Top of Pyramid . . . . . . . . . . 108 21. Serpent Head Censer Handle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Maps 1. The Teotihuacan Valley Showing Aztec Period Sites . . . . . . . . . . 46 2. Map of Mexico Showing Sites and Locations of Spindle Whorls 56 3. The Valley of Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 4. The Texcoco Region Showing Aztec Period Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Plates (p.115ff) 1. Clay Impressions of Type 1-A Design Motifs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 2. Type 1-A Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 3. Type I Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 4. Type I Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 5. Type II-A Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 6. Type II Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 7. Type II-D Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 8. Type III-A Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 9. Type III Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 10. Type Nand V Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 11. Type VI, VIII, and IX Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 12. Miscellaneous Spindle Whorl Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 13. Miscellaneous Spindle Whorl Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 14. Huasteca Spindle Whorls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 15. Spindle Whorls From the Toluca Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 16. Spindle Whorls From the Toluca Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 17. Comparison of Type I and Type III Face Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 18. Type 1-A Headdresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 19. Type I-A Variations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 20. Type 1-B Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 21. Type II Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 22. Type III-A1 Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 23. Type III-A Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 24. Type III-A Body Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 25. Type III-B Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 26. Type III-C Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 27. Type III-D,E Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 v 28. Type Ill-F Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 29. Type Ill-G-J Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 30. Type III-K Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 31. Type Ill-L-0 Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 32. Type Ill-P,Q Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 33. Type III-R Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 34. Type Ill-S-V Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 35. Type III-W Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 36. Types III-X, Miscellaneous 1 and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 37. Miniature Head, Miscellaneous 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 38. Miscellaneous Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 39. Miscellaneous Broken and Unidentified Type III Head Fragments . . 158 40. Miscellaneous Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 41. Post-Contact Figurines, Types 1 and 2 ...· . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 42. Post-Contact Figurines, Types 3, 4, and Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . 160 43. Animal Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 44. Miscellaneous Animal Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 45. Serpent Head Censer Handle Fragments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 46. Late Toltec (Mazapan) Figurines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 vi PREHISPANIC OBSIDIAN EXPLOITATION IN CENTRAL MEXICO A PRELIMINARY SYNTHESIS Michael W. Spence Jeffrey R. Parsons GENERAL INTRODUCTION D URING the past few years both of us have had occasion to become interested in the economics of prehispanic obsidian production and distribution in and around the Valley of Mexico: Spence as a result of his involvement with the Teotihuacan Mapping Project, directed by Rene Millon, and Parsons through parti cipation in William T. Sanders' Teotihuacan Valley Project and his own subsequent investigations in the Texcoco Region. The present paper is an attempt to draw together a series of admittedly fragmentary and incomplete data bearing upon aboriginal utilization of obsidian in Central Mexico, focusing upon the rich quarries of Cruz del Milagro and Cerro Pinal in southern Hidalgo and certain aspects of obsidian quarrying and working in the eastern Valley of Mexico. While we recognize the speculative and tentative character of many of our conclusions and observations and the far-from-ideal quality of the information at our disposal, we are hopeful that our efforts to synthesize will be provocative and suggestive of directions in which subsequent investigations might best proceed. In the course of our fieldwork, we have benefited from the assistance of several institutions and numerous individuals. Both Millon's and Sanders' projects have been primarily supported by National Science Foundation Grants GS23800, GS207, GS614, GS1222. Parsons' fieldwork in 1966 was supported by a faculty research grant awarded by the Horace Rackham Graduate School of the University of Michigan, and his 1967 research in Texcoco was sponsored by National Science Foundation Grant GS1617. In all cases, the Instituto Nacional de Antropolotia e Historia has been most considerate in facilitating and approving all aspects of our work. We wish to thank Rene Millon, James A. Benny hoff, Matthew Wallrath, Jody Hopkins, Jose Luis Franco, Thomas Charlton, Warren Barbour, and Darlena Blucher for their assistance with various aspects of the study. Our 1966 visits to the Cruz del Milagro and Cerro Piiial quarries were assisted by several University of Michigan graduate students: Robert Bettarel, Richard Blanton, William

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