Roman Head from Calixtlahuaca
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Description: A small terracotta head found in 1933 in a pre-Hispanic burial at Calixtlahuaca in the Toluca Valley has been identified by Bernard Andreae and others as Roman of circa 200 AD.
size>n 1933, archaeologist Jos García Payón discovered a small head with "foreign" features in a burial at Calixtlahuaca, in the Toluca Valley about 60 km. west of Mexico City. The burial was under two undisturbed cemented floors that antedated the destruction of Calixtlahuaca by the Aztecs in AD 1510. Numerous cultural pieces found with the head were identified by García Payón as belonging to the Azteco-Matlatzinca period of 1476-1510. Cortez did not land at Veracruz until 1519, and did not conquer the Aztecs until 1521, so that central Mexico was still pre-Hispanic in 1510.
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| Date | activated: 18-Aug-1987 last updated: 10-Oct-2007 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |