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Journal of archaeological research [vol. 27 no. 3, september 2019]
cacao economies in far western mexico developed between ad 850/900 and 1350+ along with the adoption of a political-religious complex centered on the solar deity xochipilli as the aztatlan culture became integrated into expanding political, economic, and information networks of highland and southern mesoamerica. the xochipilli complex significantly transformed societies in the aztatlan core zone of coastal nayarit and sinaloa and parts of jalisco, durango, zacatecas, and michoacan. west mexican cacao was acquired in the u.s. southwest by chaco canyon elites in new mexico through macroregional prestige goods economies as ancestral pueblo societies became integrated into the postclassic mesoamerican world.
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