Civilizations and Urbanism

in the Basin of Mexico

(Tentative Home Page)

The Basin of Mexico has been the home of various cities of different types. It stands out as a heartland of pristine ancient civilization and well-developed pre-industrial urbanization in the New World. Particularly, Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlán (the Aztec capital) were the two largest cities in the New World in their respective eras (A.D. 1-650 and A.D. 1400-1521). After experiences of cultural collision and acculturation with Westerners, the current Mexico City, standing on the ruins of the Aztec empire is growing as one of the most populous cities in the World. The present long-term project intends to explore, from multiple perspectives, prehistories and histories in the Basin of Mexico, where these exceptional metropoli developed with its rich environmental resources and intensive social interactions.

As the first step, we will create extensive multimedia World Wide Web sites on these ancient and historical cities for the public, students, and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Currently, the site consists of introductory pages, museum pages, on-going research reports of archaeological projects, and an academic internet journal. Most pages will be prepared both in English and Spanish and will be updated and restructured, as new sets of relevant pages are uploaded. We will keep this cyberspace anonymously to invite international researchers and educators interested in the common themes in order to explore new technologies and media for exchanges of information and discussions. For those who are interested in participating in the project, please contact with us.

Currently, this tentative site consists of two major sites in our server. Links to other archaeology sites will complement the project.

PreColumbian Civilization in the Basin of Mexico

Teotihuacan Home Page: The site consists of Introduction Pages, Feathered Serpent Pyramid pages, Teotihuacan Notes (internet journal), with auxiliary short movies.

Museum of the Templo Mayor Home Page (English version): This official site of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History currently consists of extensive instructional and informative pages of the museum exhibition. (Museo del Templo Mayor: Version Español)

Acculturation in Colonial Periods

Independence and Contemporaneous Mexico

Links to Relevant Sites

A selected list of web pages which include useful information for the project.

(Scheme of site links)

Technical Notes

The site was created by Saburo Sugiyama with the assistance of Yosei Sugiyama (html). The project was supported by a Humanities Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The web site is maintained by the Archaeological Research Institute of the Anthropology Department at ASU. All texts and figures included in this project are copyrighted by the individual authors or institutions, as indicated on the corresponding page. To use the materials, please contact the authors or institutions directly. All figures are also invisibly digital-watermarked with the distributor's information for copyright protection.

Last Update: 11/2/97
Saburo Sugiyama: Arizona State University, Dept. of Anthropology, Tempe, AZ 85287
Copyright 1997
Send comments to saburo.sugiyama@asu.edu

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