IMPORTANCIA DE LA DOMESTICACIÓN ANIMAL EN LA ANTIGUA CIUDAD DE TEOTIHUACAN

Abstract

Few people know that the animal domesticación was a frequent process in Mesoamérica
and that the religion was a fundamental factor. Considering four decades of archaeozoological
studies in Teotihuacan, it turns into a place adapted to admit that domestic animals existed
in the city. The evidences allow to establish that in the city there were created three types of
domestic cánids derived from common dogs; the mountain lion and the golden eagles lived in
schemes of long captivity, wolves and rabbits reached the protodomesticación condition and
common dogs and turkeys lived in the city as part of the inheritance recibed of the cultures
that they preceded.