>>213333453I haven't read it and I don't know much about the Comanche, but I have read they had some pretty hardcore practices around raiding enemies or settlers and with infanticide.
>>213333795It's the obvious answer, but Tikal
Beyond the fact that it's big, one of my favorite aspects of Mesoamerican urbanism is waterworks, and Tikal is maybe the Mesoamerican city with the most complex water management systems:
It had a series of massive reservoirs (with filter systems) that could hold dozens of millions of gallons of water, which were connected via channels/aqueducts, some with branching paths controlled via switching mechanisms and seperated by dams with multiple release/flow points so if one reservoir got too much water it wouldn't overflow into the city itself and flood things. That network also connected to smaller reservoirs and agricultural irrigration systems further out into the city's suburban sprawl (which covered hundreds of square kilometers), and the city center's buildings, plazas, etc had drains to funnel water into the system to prevent it from pooling up and flooding things.
Palenque also had very involved water management (Mesoamerican cities in general often had a decent amount, but Tikal, Tenochtitlan, and Palenque probably had the most extensive systems), and some neat terraces, but it's not as big. Maybe Calakmul would be a contender if more of the site was mapped and excavated.
I will say I like Ek Balam's surviving stucco architectural accenting on it's acropolis, but I don't know enough about the site as a whole to call it a "favorite". Copan's also very cool, and any site with intact murals like Bonampak or San Bartolo is cool. DESU that's the only thing I really like about Chichen Itza (and some of it's Puuc accenting), but it's murals are technically lost, we just have reproduction from 100 years ago by Adela Breton (which British museums don't publish online at a high resolution despite them being in the Public Domain