This post was submitted by Dr. Kristin De Lucia, an archaeologist joining SOAN this year.
Figure 1: A view of the Church in Xaltocan, Mexico.
This summer we are excavating in the courtyard of the 16th century church in Xaltocan, Mexico, a pre-Columbian regional center that rose to power long before the emergence of the Aztec Empire. The project is co-directed by Colgate Anthropology professor, Kristin De Lucia, and Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria, professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is funded by the National Science Foundation. Although the project directors have worked in Xaltocan for many years and have conducted excavations in various locations across the site, they had always wondered what lay under the church, which is elevated over the adjacent streets.
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