Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco
The Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco is a pictorial
A unique, interesting, and important feature of the map is depictions of fruit trees, both European and local, many of them grafted.
Scholars have grappled with the size of plots of land depicted. Cline created a chart with units of measurement, but was cautious about calculating the size of plots, since it was unclear what unit of measure was being used.
The importance of the OLM and its densely packed information on a relatively small map has prompted scholars from its first discovery to enlarge sections of the map so that the details can be seen.[13] This is now possible digitally at the Library of Congress website.[14]
The Library of Congress considers the map one of the gems of its collection and in April 2018 hosted a webinar, now archived along with the transcript, focusing on it.[15][16]
References
- ISBN 0-292-70154-3
- ^ The Oztoticpac Lands Map in the Library of Congress exhibition "Exploring the Early Americas."
- ^ Oztoticpac Lands Map World Digital Library
- ISBN 0-292-70154-3
- ^ Cline, Howard F., "The Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco 1540." The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 23, no. 2 (1966): 76-115. https://www.jstor.org/stable/29781211.
- ^ Cline, Howard F. "The Oztoticpac Lands Map of Texcoco, 1540," in A la Carte: Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases, Washington, DC: Library of Congress 1972, pp. 5-33.
- ^ Cline, "The Oztoticpac Lands Map," 1966, p. 93-94.
- ^ Frederick Hicks, "Mayeque y calpuleque en el sistema de clases del México antiguo." in Pedro Carrasco and Johanna Broda, Estratificación social en la Mesoamérica prehispánica, Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones Superiores. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia 1976, pp. 67-87.
- ^ James Lockhart, The Nahuas After the Conquest, Stanford University Press 1992, p. 98, pp. 504-505 n. 23
- ^ H.R. Harvey, "The Oztoticpac Lands Map: A Reexamination," in H.R. Harvey, ed. Land and Politics in the Valley of Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1991, pp. 163-186.
- ^ H.R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams (1980), "Aztec Arithmetic: Positional notation and area calculation." Science 210: 499-505.
- ^ Anastasia Kalyuta, "Discovering the Mysteries of the 'Oztoticpac Lands Map': Paleography and Translation of Nahua Land Cadastre", Dumbarton Oaks Research Report 2015-2016.
- ^ Cline, 1966
- ^ Library of Congress, Oztoticpac Lands Map navigable digital image
- ^ Oztoticpac Lands Map webinar, Library of Congress 11 April 2018.
- ^ Transcript of the Library of Congress webinar