Abstract
Throughout his career, Robert Santley sought to explain the spread of Teotihuacan-derived material culture to other areas of Mesoamerica and to develop better archaeological methods for recognizing variation in the organization of Mesoamerican macroregional economic systems. In this paper, I review Santley's approaches to understanding the Mesoamerican World and outline unresolved questions in the archaeological use of world-systems theory as applied to Mesoamerica. I discuss how recent research on trade diasporas applies to the data from Matacapan and consider some fruitful new directions for research.
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