Huastec culture (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Valtierra Vega. Emiliano Melgar. Reyna Beatríz Solís Ciriaco.

At Tamtoc, an archaeological site located at the Huastec region in San Luis Potosi, the archaeologists found hundreds of lapidary objects in the offerings and burials. Some of them were crafted in raw materials that were available locally, like the calcite, while others came from distant áreas, like the jadeite. But, their provenance was the same of their production? The purpose of this paper is to show how the technological analysis with Experimental Archaeology and the characterization of the...