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Tututepec

A Postclassic-period Mixtec conquest state

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Ronald Spores
Ronald Spores
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Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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Abstract

Around a.d. 1000 a political empire centered at Tututepec on Oaxaca's Pacific Coast formed and rose to prominence under the leadership of the great Mixtec lord 8 Deer. The extensive (25,000 km2) and ethnically diverse Tututepec empire was integrated by a system of conquest and alliance, tribute and service, military conscription, trade, a three- to four-level political hierarchy, and a simple administrative network. It was further linked by a system of royal marital alliance and trade to the Mixtec states in the Mixteca Aha and Mixteca Baja in the mountains to the north. The empire, smaller but more tightly integrated than the Chulhua-Mexica empire and smaller but more loosely integrated than the Purepecha (Tarascan) empire, dominated the Oaxaca Coast until the arrival of the Spaniards in the early 1520s.

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Special Section: The Coast Beyond the Clouds: Coastal Highland Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Oaxaca
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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , Spring 1993 , pp. 167 - 174
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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