托尔特克文化是大约发生在公元800-1000年间，中部美洲地区的古文化，纳瓦特尔语里“托尔特克”的意思是“技工”，后来的阿兹特克文化认为自己是托尔特克文化的继承者，阿兹特克的口头传说和图画也经常描写托尔特克帝国的历代统治者的事迹。

考古发现主要集中在墨西哥的伊达尔戈市图拉镇附近，其中的建筑和图画有的和奇琴伊察考古发现的玛雅文化有相似的地方，如何解释在考古学家中间也有分歧，有人认为是托尔特克人曾经攻占过奇琴伊察，因此受到玛雅文化的影响，也有一种解释认为阿兹特克传说中的神魁札尔科亚特尔其实曾经是托尔特克的统治者，后来被托尔特克人驱逐，在美洲中部寻找并创建了新的城市，成立了阿兹特克王朝。

The Toltec culture is an archaeological Mesoamerican culture that dominated a state centered in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico in the early post-classic period of Mesoamerican chronology (ca 900-1168 CE). The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tōllān [ˈtoːlːaːn] (Nahuatl for Tula) as the epitome of civilization; indeed in the Nahuatl language the word "Tōltēcatl" [toːlˈteːkat͡ɬ] (singular) or "Tōltēcah" [toːlˈteːkaʔ] (plural) came to take on the meaning "artisan". The Aztec oral and pictographic tradition also described the history of the Toltec Empire, giving lists of rulers and their exploits.