Recent remote sensing research in the Tlalixcoyan basin, Veracruz, has identified patterns of raised fields and public civic-ceremonial plaza groups that suggest a local and decentralized strategy of cooperation to develop hydraulic and agricultural resources. This perspective provides support for Scarborough and Lucero’s (2010) cross-cultural conceptualization of hydraulic strategies in the semi-tropics, but we note some exceptions to their model as well. We conclude based on the remotely sensed data that (1) most of the interconnected field systems are too large or complex for a single family or lineage to have built and maintained alone; (2) the Tlalixcoyan settlement system is divided into clusters that likely represent social groupings akin to administrative districts; (3) each residential cluster possessed its own public civic-ceremonial plaza group; (4) each plaza group could have provided the seat of cooperation in the creation and maintenance of common-pool resources like raised fields; and (5) despite the implication of local hydraulic management within districts, the region as a whole presents a hierarchical settlement distribution with the Tlalixcoyan Monumental Complex at the top. The last two points represent central hypotheses generated from the remote sensing data that will be tested in future field research.

韦拉克鲁斯（Veracruz）Tlalixcoyan盆地的近期遥感研究已经确定了高架田地和公共礼仪广场小组的模式，这些模式提出了开发水力和农业资源的地方性和分散式合作战略。这种观点为斯卡伯勒和卢塞罗（Scarborough and Lucero，2010）在亚热带水力战略的跨文化概念化提供了支持，但我们也注意到了它们模型的一些例外。我们根据遥感数据得出的结论是：（1）大多数互连的现场系统对于单个家庭或血统来说太大或太复杂，无法单独建立和维护。（2）特拉里斯科扬（Tlalixcoyan）安置系统被划分为集群，这些集群很可能代表类似于行政区的社会群体；（3）每个居民区都有自己的公共礼仪广场组；（4）每个广场组在创建和维护公共场所资源（如活动场）方面可以提供合作的场所；（5）尽管暗示了在区域内进行局部水力管理，但该地区总体上呈现出分层的定居分布，而特拉克斯科扬纪念性建筑群位于顶部。最后两点代表将从遥感数据中生成的中心假设，这些假设将在未来的现场研究中进行测试。整个区域呈现出分层的定居分布，顶部是Tlalixcoyan Monumental Complex。最后两点代表将从遥感数据中生成的中心假设，这些假设将在未来的现场研究中进行测试。整个区域呈现出分层的定居分布，顶部是Tlalixcoyan Monumental Complex。最后两点代表将从遥感数据中生成的中心假设，这些假设将在未来的现场研究中进行测试。