page_title: San Miguel Ixtapan (archaeological site)
section_title: Site Museum
hierarchical_section_title: San Miguel Ixtapan (archaeological site) / Site Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: San Miguel Ixtapan, basement 3, west side
context_page_description: San Miguel Ixtapan is an archaeological site located in the municipality of Tejupilco, in the State of Mexico.
  Tejupilco is about 100 kilometers west from the city of Toluca, Mexico State, on federal highway 134. The site is some 15 kilometers south of the municipal head, on state highway 8 that leads to Amatepec.
  This site is one of the few explored in the southwest region of the State of Mexico, that has provided some archaeological information on an area that virtually was not explored.
  Its apogee was in the aftermath of the Teotihuacan decline. Located in an area which probably served as a liaison between the Central Highlands and regions of Michoacán and Guerrero, San Miguel Ixtapan had its greatest growth between 750 and 900 CE. Then the site reaches a substantial expansion and built most of the structures of the ceremonial area now visible, they represent only a portion of what was the site in its splendor. San Miguel Ixtapan was located in a privileged place with deposits of basalt prisms used for construction, fertile land and one of the larger flow springs in the State.
context_section_description: The museum was opened in 1995 by the "Instituto Mexiquense de Cultura".
  San Miguel has a site museum which exhibits a large amount of recovered pieces. This material provided information about the culture and way of life of the ancient inhabitants of the region.
  The Museum is small; however keeps a collection of more than 800 items, many in perfect state of conservation and cleverly distributed pursuant to museographer Jorge Carrandi layout. This material has been discovered, mostly as part of mortuary offerings. By ceramic type and style of the sculptures, it has been chronologically placed from the postclassical mesoamerican period.
  Some of the ceramic figures include women figurines, some pregnant, dating back to 800 BCE to 200 CE.
  Other pieces belong to the splendor period, between 750 and 900 CE. Including vessels, deities representations, feathers and the skeleton of an important man, exhibited as was found in one of the external mounds.
caption: San Miguel Ixtapan, west side of basement 3 & M.C. Clément
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