|
Pre-history |
1500
BC |
1250
BC |
1000
BC |
750
BC |
500
BC |
250
BC |
1
AD |
250
AD |
500
AD |
750
AD |
1000
AD |
1250
AD |
1500
AD |
| Era |
Archaic |
Early
Formative
(Pre-classic) |
Middle
Formative |
Late
Formative
(Late Pre-classic) |
Proto-classic |
Early
Classic |
Late
Classic |
Terminal
Classic |
Early
Post-classic |
Late
Post-classic |
| Central
Mexico |
<--------------------------------Tlatilco |
Cuicuilco |
|
Cacaxtla |
|
|
|
| Oaxaca |
|
Monte
Alban
I Dainzu |
|
|
|
|
Independant
Mixtec Kingdom |
| Gulf
Coast |
|
<----------------San
Lorenzo |
<------Olmecs----->
La Venta |
Tres
Zapotes----> |
|
<-----------
Cerro de las Mesas |
|
------------->
Classic Veracruz |
Huastecs |
Aztecs |
| Western
Mexico |
|
Capacha Xochipala
|
|
Colima |
Chupicuaro |
Ixtlan
del Rio |
|
Tarascans |
Maya
Highlands-
Pacific Coast |
|
Ocos |
|
Abaj
Takalik |
Izapa,
Kaminaljuyu |
Escuintla
Kaminaljuyu |
|
Cotzumalhuapa |
|
Maya
Independent City States
Mixco,
Viejo, Iximche, Utatlan |
|
Maya
Lowlands |
South |
|
El
Mirador, Nakbe |
|
Cerros |
|
|
|
Tayasal (Itza) |
| North |
|
Izamal,
Dzibilchaltun |
|
|
|
Tikal