Procedencia de la mica de Teotihuacan: control de los recursos suntuarios foráneos por las élites gobernantes

Through archaeometric studies (X-ray diffraction, scan electron microscopy, neutron activation), mica from Xalla and Teopancazco is characterized and compared with sources of mica in the Valley of Oaxaca (Las Trancas near San Francisco Telixtlahuaca, Paraje Loma Gorda near Cuilapan, Loma Yaguín near Santo Tomás Jalieza, the modern mine of Minerales de Antequera S.A. in Ocotlán de Morelos) and with Prehispanic mica from the archaeological sites of Monte Albán, Cerro de las Minas, and Huamelulpan in Oaxaca. Most of the Prehispanic mica may have come from the area of the modern mine of Minerales de Antequera S.A. in Ejutla.