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Skill and the question of blade crafting intensity at Classic Period Teotihuacan
I suggest the San Martin data, when compared to valid subsurface infor
This perspective has important implications for understanding the nature of
economic structure.
The following discussion begins by describing the San Martin and Opera
address the artifact attributes used to measure craftsman skill and how they
The Workshops
“workshops” were actually production contexts, the inhabitants of the San
Martin complex were involved in the specialized manufacture of blades and
bifaces during the Classic period (Fig. 3). The workshop consists of three
conjoined residential compounds covering about 2 ha, housing an estimated
140 to 300 people (Spence 1986). The array and density of obsidian tool
byproducts at the workshop, and their direct association with residential ar
chitecture, 1 suggest that it was occupied by cooperatively organized extended
families 2
Figure 3. Map of the San Martin Workshop Complex
at Teotihuacan.
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