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Acolman
Acolman de Nezahualcoyotl is a town and municipality located in the northern part of Mexico State, part of the Greater Mexico City area, just north of the city proper. According to myth, the first man was placed here after being taken out of Lake Texcoco. In the community of Tepexpan, the...
municipality
Municipalities of Mexico
Municipalities are the second-level administrative division in Mexico . There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico, making the average municipality population 45,616...
in Mexico State, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. The population was 48,103 as of the 2005 Mexican census.
One of the most interesting aspects of this town is the discovery of an early Mesoamerican skeleton commonly referred to as "Tepexpan man
Tepexpan man
The Tepexpan Man is a Pre-Columbian era skeleton, discovered by archaeologist Helmut de Terra in February 1947, on the shores of the former Lake Texcoco in central Mexico. The skeleton was found near mammoth remains and thought to be at least 10,000 years old. Dr. de Terra's research was funded by...
". Recent research tries to show that the skeleton was not that of a man but that of a woman. The woman was apparently trampled by raging mastodon around 11,000 BCE. The proposition that Tepexpan Man was a woman has been advanced by one Mexican archaeologist based on DNA analysis. His peers at INAH have not accepted his conclusions and he has not submitted his analysis in a paper for peer review. Thus, until peer review confirms his work one must leave the matter as conjecture. Additional mammoth fossils from the Late Pleistocene show this site the nearby Santa Isabel Ixtapan
Santa Isabel Ixtapan
Santa Isabel Ixtapan is a community which is part of the municipality of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It has 4,125 inhabitants and lies 2,240 meters above sea level....
to be mammoth kill sites. Mammoths were driven into bogs where they were severely slowed down and eventually killed with fluted points as early as 9000 BCE or as late as 7000 BCE.
Tepexpan can be considered one of the most important towns in the municipal region of Acolman
Acolman
Acolman de Nezahualcoyotl is a town and municipality located in the northern part of Mexico State, part of the Greater Mexico City area, just north of the city proper. According to myth, the first man was placed here after being taken out of Lake Texcoco. In the community of Tepexpan, the...
. It has many resources, among these: obsidian and pewter.
Tepexpan has a church named Santa Maria Magdalena, located near the central plaza. It is one oldest of the region and it was built near the first years of the Spanish conquest.
It has five districts:
Anahuac 1 Sección ( Tepexpan )
Anahuac II Sección ( Tepexpan )
Chimalpa ( Tepexpan )
Los Reyes ( Tepexpan )
Paraje El Faro
See also
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)
- List of hominina (hominid) fossils (with images)
External links
- Ayuntamiento de Acolman Official website of Municipality of Acolman
- The Prehistory of Mexico