Invisible masons. An approximation to the study of the pit pattern of La Ventilla, Teotihuacan

Abstract

This article was born with a desire, and talk about architecture of the ancient city of Teotihuacan (Mexico), without the guilds of stonemasons who made it possible and whose activities have not figured within the academic concerns of specialists and this pre-Columbian metropolis. Therefore, as part of archaeological explorations in the Teotihuacan neighborhood of La Ventilla and particularly the discovery of enigmatic patterns of pits on their floors, is that we do exercises of experimental archeology in order to approach some operations, techniques and engineering solutions that routinely performing these builders as part of their basic subsistence. An attempt to scale their technical relevance and social importance of these associations in the universe of ancient architecture.