In the present article Carballo examines the temple and plaza offerings towards the process of urbanization that took place in central Mexico. He takes into account the site of La Laguna Tlaxcala as a case study to test the assumption of urban process through ritual performance. In other words, the process of urbanization can be defined as an integration of community membership and social differentiation of the individuals which includes power, wealth and occupational specialization.
In this article he attempts to show how the rituals in the ancient Mexican cities forms a dominant characteristics towards the inception of urbanism irrespective of types of urbanism such as population thresholds and greater degree of social and functional differentiation.
In this article he attempts to show how the rituals in the ancient Mexican cities forms a dominant characteristics towards the inception of urbanism irrespective of types of urbanism such as population thresholds and greater degree of social and functional differentiation.