This is the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia's own excavation programme record, the Programa de Arqueologia Urbana, documenting the ongoing excavation since 2015 of the Huei Tzompantli, the great skull rack of Tenochtitlan, uncovered beneath standing colonial buildings in the historic center of Mexico City. As the excavating institution's own report it is the correct source for what has actually been found and when. Its limit is stated by the excavation itself: work is confined to what can be reached beneath the standing buildings above it, so every published skull count and dimension is of a partial exposure, not the complete structure, and a claim asserting a final total needs to note that the site remains only partly excavated.
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The Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia's own excavation programme record, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional archaeological record. NotesThe urban archaeology programme that has exposed the great skull rack of Tenochtitlan beneath standing colonial buildings in the Centro Historico of Mexico City from 2015 onward. Excavation is confined to what can be reached under those buildings, so all published counts are of a partial exposure.
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AuthorInstituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia
PublisherInstituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia
The Mexican government institute's own excavation programme record, matching this entry's own author field. Publication Year2015
Source TypeExcavation report
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This source names Mexico directly: "buildings in the historic center of Mexico City."
This source names Tenochtitlan directly: "Tzompantli, the great skull rack of Tenochtitlan, uncovered beneath standing colonial buildings in the historic center of Mexico City."
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This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Open Questions, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Studies, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 open question, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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