![]() This state still encompassed the vast territory of the old Aztec Empire. Īfter the War, the State of Mexico was created by the 1824 Constitution, with the first state congress convening in March of that year in Mexico City. Evidence of ceramics appears around 2500 BCE with the earliest artifacts of these appearing in Tlapacoya, Atoto, Malinalco, Acatzingo and Tlatilco. Later crops include beans, chili peppers and squash grown near established villages. The main crop was corn, and stone tools for the grinding of this grain become common. Between 20,0 BCE, the people here eventually went from hunting and gathering to sedentary villages with farming and domesticated animals. Most have been found in the areas of Los Reyes Acozac, Tizayuca, Tepexpan, San Francisco Mazapa, El Risco and Tequixquiac. Stone age implements have been found all over the territory from mammoth bones, to stone tools to human remains. They are dated to the Pleistocene era which dates human habitation back to 20,000 years. The earliest evidence of human habitation in current territory of the state is a quartz scraper and obsidian blade found in the Tlapacoya area, which was an island in the former Lake Chalco. ![]()
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