The archaeological discovery of a city in central Mexico will shed light on the history of thanks to the study of pre-Columbian ruins. The remains, attributable to the Purepecha civilization, located in the Lake Patzcuaro, near the town of Tzintzutzan , which was the capital of an empire and little-known opponent of the Aztec.
The largest settlement was discovered last summer in the central state of Michoacan by an archaeological mission led by the Colorado State University Christopher Fisher. The discovery and data available to date, however, were only presented last weekend at the 75th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology , held in St Louis, Missouri.
The proto-urban settlement was founded around the year one thousand and has been gradually emptying about 1350 due to the transfer of much of the population in the new capital, Tzintzutzan, until 1500, a time when the city is totally uninhabited. The center, which does not have a name, it was inhabited by about 40 000 people during the consolidation period Perupecha empire. The civilization that lived in this settlement was specialized in the manufacture of bronze and copper.
Purepecha Empire was large and powerful as the Aztec: controlled the western part of Mexico and was in conflict with its eastern neighbors with which it had no trade. In fact, we found evidence of a violent confrontation at the end of the fifteenth century during which the Aztec army was defeated.
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