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Mesoameritober Día 7/ Day 7: Cuicuilco
Al dibujo de hoy le puse menos ganas porque amanecí agüitado, ¿Porque? Ni idea, pero aquí ta.
Today's drawing is lazier cuz I woke up in a bad mood for no reason, my scalp hurts idk, here's the drawing afjajd.
Cuicuilco, Great Circular Base, Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico
Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan (also spelled Tenochtitlán), located on an island near the western shore of Lake Texcoco in central Mexico, was the capital city and religious centre of the Aztec civilization. The traditional founding date of the city was 1345 CE and it remained the most important Aztec centre until...
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“ type of pottery recovered from beneath the Cuicuilco lava at the ruins of Cuicuilco. This piece of earthenware had been buried for probably more than 7,000 years.” , 1923.
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Vista de la pirámide de Cuicuilco, ca. 1936 x Esther Born
Probablemente la estructura más antigua del continente norteamericano. Born empleó esta foto para acompañar su texto de apertura de The New Architecture in Mexico (1937), añadiendo además dos diagramas: uno de la pirámide y otro con el mismo perfil de la pirámide pero mezclándolo la sección del proyecto Durand de 1932 de Le Corbusier.
Una vista aérea de la fábrica de papel de Peña Pobre, Tlalpan en 1944. La fotografía también retrató la pirámide de Cuicuilco, y el resto es pura vegetación.
Cuicuilco A.
Se empezó a utilizar como área ceremonial entre 700-400 a.C. Ahí se construyó el Gran Basamento, una de las primeras construcciones monumentales de la Cuenca de México, con más de 100 metros de diámetro.
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Forgotten Pyramid in Mexico City
Thousands of tourists travel outside of Mexico City to visit Teotihuacan. Many of these people are not aware of a more ancient pyramid located near the prestigious National Autonomous University of Mexico. This massive circular pyramid named Cuicuilco once had an impressive population of 20,000 people. This archeological site is probably the first ceremonial center in the basin of Mexico, dated to be 7,000 years old. Statues portraying an old, wrinkled man carrying a brazier have been found in the area and have been linked to the god of fire known as Huehueteotl. It is possible that the reason the people who lived in Cuicuilco worshipped the god of fire is because of the nearby volcano Xitle. According to radiocarbon dating, Xitle erupted during 245 - 315 AD and the lava from this eruption made its way north to Cuicuilco. The development of this site that was originally founded as a farming village was disrupted due to the eruption. People were forced to abandon villages and according to archeological evidence, some of the Cuicuilcanos who left found refuge across the lake in the peninsula of Itzapalapa while others left to Teotihuacan. Parts of Mexico City today including UNAM are built on top of “El Pedregal,” the ancient lava flow of Xitle. This stunning archeological site that pre-dates Teotihuacan is just minutes away from the UNAM campus. Next time you are traveling in Mexico City make sure to visit this place whose Nahuatl name means “place where songs and dances are made”.
