ABSTRACT
Rene Millon of the University of Rochester and his associates have been engaged in the detailed mapping and intensive archeological survey of the entire urban area of Teotihuacan, a great prehispanic city covering more than eight square miles in the Valley of Mexico. One ultimate objective, then, is to learn more about Teotihuacan per se, both for its own sake and as an important instance of an early urban society to be compared with other examples in the Old and New Worlds. Records are being accumulated on all features detectable from the surface and on analyses of surface collections for each of some 5,000 separate tracts; leading to an enormous mass of detailed information. Artifact categories and other features which cluster together have highly similar patterns of distribution, and presumably these similarities are not accidental.
