.jpg) Western side of the circular pyramid at Cuicuilco. | |
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  Location within Mesoamerica | |
| Location | Valley of Mexico, Mexico |
|---|---|
| Region | Valley of Mexico |
| Coordinates | 19°18′06″N 99°10′54″W / 19.30167°N 99.18167°W |
| History | |
| Founded | Around 1000 BCE |
| Abandoned | 2nd–3rd century CE |
| Periods | Preclassic to Early Classic |
Cuicuilco is an important archaeological site located on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco in the southeastern Valley of Mexico, in what is today the borough of Tlalpan in Mexico City.
Construction of the Cuicuilco pyramid began a few centuries BCE, during the Late Preclassic period of Mesoamerican history.[1][2] The site was occupied until its destruction by the eruption of Xitle, sometime between 245 and 315 CE.[3]
Based on its date of occupation, Cuicuilco may be the oldest city in the Valley of Mexico and was roughly contemporary with, and possibly interacting with, the Olmecs of Mexico's Gulf Coast region (also known as the Olmec heartland).
- ^ PASTRANA, Alejandro and Patricia Fournier. Cuicuilco. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures. The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America. Vol. 1. David Carrasco (ed.), pp. 290–292. New York: Oxford University Press. 2001
- ^ Haury, Emil (1975). "Cuicuilco in Retrospect". Kiva. 41 (2): 195–200. doi:10.1080/00231940.1975.11757845. JSTOR 30245949.
- ^ Siebe C. (2000). "Age and archaeological implications of Xitle volcano, southwestern Basin of Mexico-City" (PDF). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 104 (1–4): 45–64. Bibcode:2000JVGR..104...45S. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.535.6515. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(00)00199-2.