Afterlife of the Party

Archaeologists have found few glyphs and little domestic architecture to illuminate the lives and culture of people in western Mexico from around 200 b.c. to a.d. 300. But they do know that then, as now, it was agave country. Families enjoyed consuming large quantities of pulque, a fermented drink crafted from the succulent. In the present-day Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, and Colima, ancient artisans sculpted evocative scenes in clay, among the most intricate of which were architectural m