ocr: possible that they may have been, inasmuch as there are a number of other similarities between the two cities. Indeed, during the past 25 years Mexican scholars have argued for a high degree of continuity in customs and beliefs from the Aztecs back to the Teotihuacanos, based partly on an assumed continuity in language. This hypothetical continuity, which extends through the intervening Toltec times, provides valuable clues in interpreting archaeological evidence. For example, the unity of religion and politics that archae- ologists postulate at Teotihuacan is re- inforced by what is known of ...