Monte Negro is a mountain top site that at existed around 200 BC and at one time consisted of an average of 2,900 people.

Household structures and their physical closeness to temples suggest the start of conjoined civic religious complexes seen later at Monte Alban.

Monte Negro temples vary in size and designs internally, but each is set on top of stone platforms with column supports and stairways.

Some of these elite members were buried in temple platforms with numerous ceramic offerings, spondyllus shell and jade ear ornaments.

[2] Some tombs were made of adobe blocks with stone or wood beams for roofing; other burials were simple pits.

[3] This farming technology is similar to cross-channel terraces as a labor-intensive system that supported a strong centralized authority.

[1] Tanware including jars, cucharas (spoons), comales (tortilla griddles), and bowls were found with red, and black-on-red paintings.