Yucuita
Sign in to savethumb|right|300px|Yucuita Yucuita (Mixtec: ''Yúku'ita, meaning Hill-flower, or Hill of Flowers'') is an archaeological site located in the Mixtec municipality of San Juan Yucuita in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It was founded by the Mixtec civilization in the pre-Classic Period as a small village dedicated to agriculture and obsidian.
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thumb|right|300px|Yucuita Yucuita (Mixtec: ''Yúku'ita, meaning Hill-flower, or Hill of Flowers'') is an archaeological site located in the Mixtec municipality of San Juan Yucuita in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It was founded by the Mixtec civilization in the pre-Classic Period as a small village dedicated to agriculture and obsidian.
Because of its antiquity and its long-term continuous occupation (from the fourteenth century BCE to the ninth century CE), Yucuita is one of the most studied Mixtec archaeological sites.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yucuita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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