Cutzamala (Mesoamerican site)

Cutzamala is an archaeological site in the northern Guerrero region of Mexico. During the Postclassic period in Mesoamerican chronology the settlement of Cutzamala served as a garrison outpost of the Tarascan state, and according to ethnohistorical sources such as the Relaciones geográficas was stationed with a contingent of up to ten thousand Tarascan warriors during the period of conflict between the Tarascans and the Aztec Empire.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ "Background" (Silverstein 2001)

References

Silverstein, Jay E. (2001). "A Study of the Late Postclassic Aztec-Tarascan Frontier in Northern Guerrero, México: The Oztuma-Cutzamala Project, 1998". The Foundation Granting Department: Reports Submitted to FAMSI. Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI). http://www.famsi.org/reports/97014/index.html. Retrieved 2009-06-15.