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Stone Tools Marker
Photographer: William J. Toman
Taken: September 4, 2010
Caption: Stone Tools Marker
Additional Description: Stone tools found as Aztalan. Please note that these [drawings are not to] scale. Please add the following caption under the Social Organization Marker photo: Large construction projects like stockades and mounds indicate a society that was organized and fairly complex. Furthermore, evidence for some level of social stratification can be interpreted from the layout of the site. Houses located on top of the platform mounds, for example, were not residences for the average inhabitant. These areas were likely reserved for members of the elite, a group who also served in religious roles. From atop any of the mounds, one could view the entire site and surrounding region. At least some members of this group were buried within the mounds. The residential zone, demarcated by an internal stockade, housed the majority of the site's occupants. Within this area, meals were prepared, tools were made, stories told, children played, food stored, and some of the deceased were buried. A large plaza area existed in the central portion of the site, and this was a space where communal activities could take place.
Submitted: October 30, 2010, by William J. Toman of Green Lake, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p134089
File Size: 3.400 Megabytes

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