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... On a hill in southwestern Tlaxcala one can see (in a single panorama) the great pyramid of Cholula to the south, the fortified Post-classic Tlaxcalan site of Tepeticpac to the north, and the recently opened site of Cacaxtla immediately to the east. Cerro Xochitecatl is that hill. The extraordinary murals...

... on the Late Preclassic and Classic Maya, and two deal with highland cultures of the Classic period at Teotihuacan and Cacaxtla. There is no discernible order to organization of essays in terms of region, chronology, or media. The volume coheres around the theme of craft production, a traditional topic...

... with the emblems of the Plumed Serpent—by then accepted as the symbol of political power and sacred wisdom. Excavations at Xochicalco, Cacaxtla, early Cholula, and Tula de Hidalgo have uncovered evidence of a common iconography. Much the same was also true of Chichen Itza, the great post-Classic metropolis...