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A list of important mesoamerican ruins or sites?

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a list of all those ruins from all mesoamerican tribes. IMPORTANT ones only

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  1. Some food for thought:

    1.  Tehuacan Valley (Puebla) - one of the earliest sites evidencing domestication of maize

    2.  Tlatilco (Federal District) - one of the first settlements in the Valley of Mexico

    3.  San Lorenzo (Veracruz) - first basalt head monuments and altars attributed to the Olmec civilization

    4.  La Venta (Tabasco) - first large ceremonial center of the Olmec excavated to date

    5.  Tres Zapotes (Veracruz) - oldest stelae monuments found in Mesoamerica, also attributed to the Olmec

    6.  Laguna de los Cerros (Veracruz) - more Olmec

    7.  El Tajin (Veracruz) - site of the 'Pyramid of the Niches'

    8.  Cerro de las Mesas (Veracruz) - stelae with many instances of epi-Olmec script

    9.  La Mojarra (Veracruz) - site of one of the longest sequences of Isthmian script found to date

    10.  Teotihuacan (San Juan Teotihuacan) - possibly the largest and most populous centers in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

    11.  Cholula (Puebla) - site of the largest artificial pyramid-like structure by volume in the world

    12.  Topiltzin-Huemac (Hidalgo) - center of the Toltec civilization

    13.  Tenochtitlan-Tlacopan-Texcoco (Federal District) - the three cities of the Triple Alliance, representing the center of the Aztec civilization

    14.  Monte Alban (Oaxaca) - one of the longest continuously occupied and best studied sites in Mesoamerica, mostly associated with the Zapotec civilization

    15.  Mitla (Oaxaca) - culmination of Zapotec architecture

    16.  Tzintzuntzan (Michoacan) - center of the Tarascan kingdom

    17.  La Quemada (Zacatecas) - famous settlement in desert northern Mesoamerican

    18.  Izapa (Chiapas) - possible link between Mayan civilization and its Olmec origins

    19.  Tikal (Guatemala) - one of the first and foremost centers of Mayan civilization

    20.  Copan (Honduras) - Mayan center

    21.  Calakmul (Campeche) - Mayan center

    22.  Quirigua (Guatemala) - Mayan center

    23.  Chichen Itza (Yucatan) - Mayan center

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