{"id":718653,"date":"2022-03-08T04:17:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T08:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=718653"},"modified":"2022-03-08T04:17:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T08:17:44","slug":"ancient-mexican-city-endured-for-centuries-without-extremes-in-wealth-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=718653","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Mexican city endured for centuries without extremes in wealth and power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location, location, location\u2014it&#8217;s the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it&#8217;s been widely assumed that being close to resources drives settlement patterns, with cities generally founded near water and fertile land for growing crops. But a new paper by a husband-and-wife archaeological team questions that idea, using the example of an ancient city in what&#8217;s now southern Mexico. The researchers argue that Monte Alb\u00e1n, the largest city in its region for more than a thousand years, wasn&#8217;t situated near especially good farmland. But what it did have from the city&#8217;s foundation was a defendable hilltop location and a more collective form of government that attracted people both to the settlement and its surrounding area.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-03-ancient-mexican-city-centuries-extremes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ancient Mexican city endured for centuries without extremes in wealth and power<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location, location, location\u2014it&#8217;s the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it&#8217;s been widely assumed that being close to resources drives settlement patterns, with cities generally founded near&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}