ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Feathered Serpent, Quetzalcoatl
1 Mar 2020
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Teotihuac n: largest city of pre-columbian world, covers 8 square miles fully urbanized, city was first laid out ~ 100 bc. Grid system planning: final form consistently oriented to 15 degrees 25 minutes east of true north, earlier structures have different orientation, suggesting changing alignment point, no one is certain of the reasoning for the orientation. Avenue of the dead: major axis: street / avenue of the dead, originally thought to run ~2 miles, from pyramid of the moon in the north to the citadel in the. Teotihuac n: pyramids of the sun & the moon built early, most of teotihuac n dates later than this, by the 6th century ad, population estimated at anywhere from 125,000 to 200,00 people. This would qualify it as the 6th largest city in the world at ad 600. 2013) suggests construction of the sun pyramid dates to ad 170-310, roughly a century later than previously thought: subterranean tunnel probably dates from ad 140-240.
