TENTATIVE CULTURAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF MAIZE GRANARY TYPES 
TABLE I 
IN MEXICO 
Granary Types 
Archaeological 
Period 
(500-1100 A.D.) 
Pre-Conquest 
Period 
(1100-1518 A.D.) 
Post-Conquest 
Period 
(1520-1600 A.D.) 
19th Century 
Period 
Modern 
Period 
A. Large Permanent 
Granaries 
a. Imperial Granaries 
1 
1 
z 
3 
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16. 
ij. 
. Rooms 
. Log-cabin 
. Cuezcomail, 
vasiform 
. Cask-like, 
— wattle-daub 
b. Encomienda Granaries 
. Log-cabin 
c. Hacienda Granaries 
. Conical, adobe-mortar 
. Cubical, masonry 
. Cylindrical, masonry 
B. Family Granaries 
a. Permanent and 
semi-permanent 
. Subterranean 
. Niches of caves 
. Rectangular and cylin- 
drical, stone and mortar 
4, Wattle-clay daub 
. Cuezcomatl, 
vasiform | 
. Clay jars 
. Highland log-eabin 
a) roof round 
b) roof on inde- 
pendent posts 
¢) cabin on posts 
—d) cabin on posts 
and projecting 
ridge pole 
. Yanhuitlan log-cabin 
. Lowland log-cabin 
. Cincalli, 
highland crib 
. Completely cylindrical 
. Square, upright poles 
. Maguey hut 
. Troje, daub-wattle, 
sealed 
. Cylindrical 
wattle-daub, 
open top 
Tropical crib 
Granary within 
house 
b. Temporary and 
non-specialized 
. Rafters 
. Tapanco, loft 
. Enramada 
. Conical, corn-stalks 
. Ziricua, reed 
. Non-specialized 
Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
‘Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
Teotihuacan 
Aztec 
Aztec ; Mixtec 
Aztec; Mazapan; 
Tlaxcalan 
Aztec 
Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
Aztec 
Tlaxcalan 
Mazapan 
Aztec ; Cahita ; 
Mayan ? 
Aztec 
Mixtec 
Aztec ? 
Aztec 
Cahita 
Cahita 
Mixtec 
Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
Nahuatl 
Tlaxcalan 
Mazapan 
Mixtec 
Mixtec 
Spanish ? 
Spanish ? 
Tarahumara 
Tarahumara 
Huicholes 
Nahuatl ? 
Tlaxcalan 
Cholulan ? 
Mixtec 
Tarahumara 
Tepehuan 
Cholulan ? 
Triquis 
Zoques 
Mixes 
Mazatecs 
Cuicatecs 
Chinantecs 
Nahuatl 
Otomi 
Triquis 
Tepehuan 
? Puebla 
Chontales 
Tarascan 
Zapotec 
Totonac 
Huaves 
Cholulan? 
Non-Indian 
Tarahumara 
Nahuatl ? 
Tlaxcalan 
Mixtee 
Tarahumara 
Tepehuan 
Cholulan ? 
Mixtec 
? Guerrero 
Nahuatl ? 
Otomi 
Amuzgos 
? Puebla 
Cuiclatee ? 
Nahuatl ? 
Mixtec ? 
n.w. Oaxaca 
s.w. Puebla 
Mayan 
Totonac 
Totonac 
Mayan 
Zapotec 
Mayan 
Tarascan 
Zapotec 
Totonac 
?, Guerrero 
Veracruz 
Cuiclatec ? 
Nahuatl ? 
Amuzgo 
? Jalisco 
Guerrero 
Oaxaca, etc. 
It has not been possible to establish definite cultural determinations in every case. This fact accounts for the inclusion 
of such terms as Tlaxcalan and Cholulan, and for the shift from the term Aztec during the Pre-Conquest period to 
Nahuatl for the later periods. In the column under the heading Modern Period, wherever it has not been possible to fix 
the cultural element to a specific Indian group, the distribution is given. 
