Western Lower Papaloapan Archaeology (Veracruz, Mexico)

This project includes files related to western lower Papaloapan basin projects, including particularly relevant Master's theses, term papers, drafts of codebooks or other working documents, and some hard-to-get or out-of-print publications (confidential because of copyrights). A list of publications, theses, and dissertations related to the projects appears in a file in the related "Introduction" project.

This pdf list maximum stratigraphic units (msu) for mounds 1055 and 1056 for which no drawings of pottery are available.

These pdf scans are for extra-large drawings from various excavation units. They could not be accomodated in the regular pdf page scans of drawings for each unit.

The pdfs are scans of pottery drawings from excavations at Mound 1126, test pit 30N92W. One pdf provides an index of the drawings according to the minimum stratigraphic unit (msu) (see excavation volume for stratigraphic information).

This resource provides pdf scans of drawings from Mound 1126 excavations at excavation pit 3S31W. One pdf file is an index of the test pit proveniences with drawings, presented as the minimum stratigraphic unit (msu) (see the excavation volume for more details on stratigraphy).

The pdfs have scans of pottery drawings from Mound 1126, exavation unit 52N46W. One pdf provides an index of the drawings according to minimum stratigraphic units (msu) (furhter details about stratigraphy are available in the excavation volume.

The pdfs are scans of pottery drawings from Mound 1126, excavation unit 66N66W. One pdf is an index of the drawings according to minimum stratigraphic units (msu) (see excavation volume for stratigraphic information).

The pdfs are scans of pottery drawings for Mound 1126, excavation unit 75N43W. One pdf provides an index of the drawings for minimum stratigraphic units (msu) (see excavation volume for stratigraphic information).

The pdfs are scans of drawings of pottery from Mound 1126, Trench excavations. One pdf provides an index of the drawings according to minimum stratigtraphic units (msu) (see excavation volume for stratigraphic information.

This monograph is a revision of Barbara Stark's dissertation. It addresses primarily excavations on Patarata Island, located in the mangrove swamp at the mouth of the Papaloapan River, Veracruz, Mexico. It was published in 1977 but is out of print. (Prehistoric Ecology at Patarata 52, Veracruz, Mexico: Adaptation to the Mangrove Swamp. Vanderbilt University Publications in Anthropology 18.)

The monograph analyzes pottery from Patarata 52, Veracruz, Mexico. (1989 Patarata Pottery: Classic Period Ceramics of the South-central Gulf Coast, Veracruz, Mexico. Anthropological Papers 51. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.)

The monograph analyzes residential excavations in the Mixtequilla area of Veracruz, Mexico. (2001 Classic Period Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico: Diachronic Inferences from Residential Investigations, ed. by B.L. Stark. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, Monograph 12, The University at Albany, N.Y. )

The report covers a portion of the historic pottery from the PALM 1, the first cycle of fieldwork. The other historic pottery is addressed in a report by Dr. Thomas Charlton.

These scans are of the original field and laboratory records from excavations in 1968-1969 on Patarata Island, Veracruz, Mexico, reported in a monograph published by Vanderbilt University.

This is Kevin Johns' masters paper. It addressees ball courts using data from Barbara Stark's Proyecto Archaeologico La Mixtequilla in the western lower Papaloapan basin. The MA title is "Courting Power: The Role of the Ballgame in the Western Lower Papaloapan Basin, Veracruz, Mexico."

Title: " The role of domestic prismatic blade use in the social development of La Mixtequilla, Veracruz, Mexico." The master's research evaluated the degree of use wear on a sample of prismatic blades from the region.

Neil Miller's masters' paper, "Figurines and Middle to Late Postclassic Changes in the Western Lower Papaloapan Basin (A.D. 1200-1521)," examines figurine styles for the Mixtequilla area, Cotaxtla, and the Central Highlands during the Late Postclassic period to evaluate evidence of different identities.

This document by Professor Charlton summarizes his examination of historic glazed pottery from the PALM project. It includes his coding sheets, appended at the end. Other historic pottery is addressed in a report by Dr. Patricia Fournier.

These pdfs are scans of drawings for X1-X22 crosscutting types (as applicable) of PALM pottery, with each X type in a separate file.

This archive includes an introduction to the field projects and publications as well as copies in pdf of original field and laboratory forms, digitized data files (generally in excel), and files with descriptions of variables in digitized files. The files will be added to tdar through a series of updates. The projects were sponsored by funding various agencies, with permission from the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico.

A program of augering residential mounds preceeded the selection of mounds for residential test excavations. These pdf files have the data forms and associated notes related to the auger testing, done in 1987.

Residential mound excavations during 1987 were recorded with forms, and artifacts from the excavations were recorded on forms.

These are pdf files of the original survey feature/collection forms. Each survey feature was recorded on a form and assigned a unique number, and, if the feature was collected, that number pertains to the surface collection. Some features have more than one collection, in which case additional feature/collection numbers were assigned. Rarely numbers were subsequently de-assigned, and might then be assigned to a different feature/collection later, but occasionally numbers were not used...

These pdf files show forms for fields where survey was conducted and the locations of features/collections within the field, along with vegetation and other observations. These files are only available with special permission because those from seasons when global positioning equipment was used have UTM coordinates. Those from survey using aerial mosaics sometimes show roads or towns identifiable on maps.

These laboratory forms record figurine classifications.

These pdfs contain the original laboratory coding forms for a variety of miscellaneous artifacts, such as spindle whorls, incensarios, colanders,clay balls, and other unusual ceramic forms. Artifacts related to ceramic production are included.

Obsidian coding forms from the PALM regional survey and associated notes. The obsidian coding was directed by Lynette Heller.

These archival forms recorded pottery types and attributes for survey collections. Some show updates or corrections when pottery was reexamined, but a few updates were made directly on electronic database or excel files.

A.J. Vonarx recorded attributes of chert bifacial artifacts, apparently all are projectile points.

A.J. Vonarx recorded attributes of obsidian bifacial tools. All appear to be projectile points.

This archive is devoted to project images. The organization of the images is described in "Documentation of Image Archive." Each image has a unique accession number, and images are grouped into categories such as bone, chert, figurine, lapidary, lithic, obsidian, pottery, shell, and so forth. Information about each image is contained in an access database "Palm Image Archive." The image archive is not completed, and images have not been entirely edited. Contact Stark with questions. For...

Drawings from Mound 354 Pit 0N1S.15W

Drawings from Mound 354 Pit 0N7E

Drawings from Mound 354 Pit 10S10W

Drawings from Mound 354 Pit 9N12W

Bone artifact images.

Miscellaneous ceramic artifacts include a wide range of forms, such as candeleros, net weights, shaft smoothers, clay balls, and other items. Not all images have been processed to improve visibility or trim unnecessary background space (e.g., in Photoshop) due to time limitations. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

Chert artifact images.

Description of how the image archive is organized.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 1-500. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 1001-1200. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 1201-1500. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 1501-2000. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 2500-3000. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 3001-3700. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These figurine images have accession numbers 3701-3800 in the image archhive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These figurine images have accession numbers 3801-3900 in the image archive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These figurine images fall within accession numbers 501-1000. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

Ground stone artifact images, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Images of incensarios (incense burners), labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive."

Kiln fragment images, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Lapidary artifact images, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Mold images for figurines, pottery, etc., labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

These are pdfs for large pottery drawings from mound 1055 excavations.

Mound 1055.26N43E drawing pdf is accompanied by a minimum stratigraphic unit index.

Mound 1055.52N47E drawing pdfs are accompanied by a minimum stratigraphic unit index.

Mound 1055.52N47E drawing pdfs are accompanied by a minimum stratigraphic unit index.

Mound 1055.85N46E drawing pdfs are accompanied by a minimum stratigraphic unit index.

Mound 1055.85N66E drawing pdfs are accompanied by a minimum stratigraphic unit index.

Mound 1055.Trench drawing pdfs are accompanied by a minimum stratigraphic unit index.

Mound 1055.Trenchcito (central trench) drawing pdfs are accompanied by a minimum stratigraphic unit index.

Mound 1056.16N96E drawing pdfs are accompanied by a minimum stratigraphic unit index.

Obsidian artifact images, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive."

This access database contains the information associated with images in the PALM and Patarata projects.

These tiff files depict the conventions used to depict colors of PALM pottery in drawings.

These tiff files depict some of the forms of PALM pottery.

Pottery images 1-99, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images100-199, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 1000-1299, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 1300-1399, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 1400-1499, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 1600-1699, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 200-399, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 2400-2499, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 2600-2699, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 2700-2799, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 2800-2899, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 2900-2999, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 3000-3099, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 3100-3199, see "Documentation of Image Archive" for archive variables and "Palm Image Archive" database for information about images.

These pottery images have accession numbers between 3300-3399, the majority taken by Thanet Skoglund in a study comparing Late Postclassic pottery from Cotaxtla (Cotaxtla Archaeological Project) and PALM. See "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive".

This file includes pottery images (3400-3499). See Documentation of Image Archive and Palm Image Archive for descriptions of the variables in the archive and for information associated with the images.

These pottery images have accession numbers between 3500-3699. See Documentation of Image Archive" for information on variables and "Palm Image Archive" for information about individual images.

These pottery images are within accession numbers 3700-3799. See Documentation of Image Archive for variables and Palm Image Archive for information about images.

These pottery images fall within accession numbers 3800-3849 in the image archive, Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These pottery images have accession numbers between 3850-3899 in the image archive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These pottery images have accession numbers 3900-3949 in the image archive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These pottery images have accession numbers 3950-3999 in the image archive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

Pottery images 400-599, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

These pottery images have accession numbers 4000-4049 in the image archive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These pottery images have accession numbers 4050-4099 in the image archive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

These pottery images have accession numbers 4100-4124 in the image archive. Variables are described in the Documentation of Image Archive, and associated information about the image is contained in the access database Palm Image Archive.

Pottery images 600-799, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Pottery images 800-999, labeled by accession number, see "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive"

Images of ceramic roller and stamp seals. See "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive" concerning associated information.

Images of worked shell and shell artifacts. See "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive" concerning associated information.

Worked stone images, see also Groundstone, Obsidian, and Chert for other worked stone files. See "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive" concerning associated information.

These pdf files present drawings of PALM pottery from survey for types 1a,b to 27.

These pdf files present drawings of PALM pottery from survey for types 30a to 80h.

These images (within the span 1-1999) are related to modern life in the survey region. See "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive" concerning associated information.