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relative time period: Follows the Late Highland Meso-american Preclassic tradition and precedes the Central Mexico Postclassic tradition. First Intermediate 3 and 4 and Middle Horizon in the scheme of Sanders et al. (1979). This interval includes the latter part of the Late Preclassic and the Early Classic in Mesoamerica-wide time schemes, but it is appropriate because it covers the time span of the Teotihuacan cultural tradition. It is followed by the “Epiclassic” period.
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Cowgill, G.L. (2001). Central Mexico Classic. In: Peregrine, P.N., Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0525-9_2
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