An archaic Mexican shellmound and its entombed floors /

"Tlacuachero is the site of an Archaic-period shellmound located in the wetlands of the outer coast of southwest Mexico. This book presents investigations of several constructed floors, built during the 600-800 years of site formation in the Archaic period (ca. 8000-2000 BCE), the crucial times...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Voorhies, Barbara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2015]
Colección:Monograph (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA) ; 80.
Temas:
Chantuto Indians > Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Mexico > Chiapas.
Kitchen-middens > Mexico > Chiapas.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Mexique > Chiapas.
Débris de cuisine (Archéologie) > Mexique > Chiapas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Kitchen-middens
Chiapas (Mexico) > Antiquities.
Mexico > Chiapas
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Barbara Voorhies
  • Stratigraphy and chronology of the archaic period deposits at Tlacuachero / Brendan Culleton, Barbara Voorhies, and Douglas J. Kennett
  • Dating the Tlacuachero post-archaic deposits: ceramic analysis / Heather B. Thakar
  • The Tlacuachero floors: description and sampling methods / Heather B. Thakar
  • Geochemistry of the Tlacuachero floors / Hector Neff, Paul Burger, and Isabela Kott
  • Spatial analysis of microrefuse and floor color variations / Heather B. Thakar
  • A spatial analysis of phytoliths at Tlacuachero / Doug H. Drake
  • Early use of chipped stone at Tlacuachero / Elizabeth H. Paris
  • The Tlacuachero vertebrate fauna / Thomas A. Wake and Barbara Voorhies
  • Some considerations of site formation processes and functions of Tlacuachero / Barbara Voorhies
  • Site formation process and function at mega-shellmounds: refuse heaps or platform mounds? / Barbara Voorhies.

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