Salvage excavations along the right of way of a 2 km stretch of proposed highway crossing the northern part of the Postclassic city of Tula, Hidalgo utilized a multi-phase investigation strategy, featuring pedestrian survey and exploratory test-pitting. This fieldwork led to extensive excavation in five localities, which uncovered significant portions of both elite and non-elite residential compounds, a possible administrative structure, and two temples, one of which is the earliest example of a twin temple pyramid in western Mesoamerica. The diversity of structures and corresponding functions encountered in excavation are comparable to those found in previous excavations that suggest the city was organized into barrios, each with its own political, religious, social, and other institutions that mimic those of the larger urban polity. While these investigations confirm previous evidence of considerable destruction of the ancient city in recent decades, they also demonstrate that significant portions are still intact.

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古图拉北部的考古调查

沿着穿越后古典城市图拉北部的 2 公里拟建高速公路路权的打捞挖掘采用了多阶段调查策略，包括行人调查和探索性试验坑。这项实地工作导致在五个地方进行了广泛的挖掘，发现了精英和非精英住宅区的重要部分、一个可能的行政结构和两座寺庙，其中一个是中美洲西部最早的双庙金字塔例子。挖掘中遇到的结构和相应功能的多样性与以前的挖掘中发现的相似，这些挖掘表明城市被组织成街区，每个街区都有自己的政治、宗教、社会和其他机构，模仿更大的城市政体。