El Palacio: Historiography and new perspectives on a pre-Tarascan city of northern Michoac n, Mexico

In the centuries that preceded the European conquest in 1521, the central-northern region of the state of Michoacán, West Mexico, was a place of significant socio-political changes materialized by important transformations of settlement pattern and material culture. The archaeological site of El Palacio (also known as La Crucita or Mich. 23), located in the Zacapu Basin constituted a major center throughout these regional events. The site has been mentioned in the archaeological literature ...