Preceramic and Early Agrarian Communities in the Basin of Mexico: New Perspectives

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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Other Keywords
Basin of Mexico • Formative • Central Mexico • Archaeozoology • Paleosols • México • Holocene • preceramic • XRF • Precerámico

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica

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  • Early agrarian societies in the Basin of Mexico: Challenges and Perspectives (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Guillermo Acosta Ochoa. Emily McClung de Tapia.

    Over the past three decades, there have been very few studies of the earliest agrarian communities in the Basin of Mexico in comparison with other periods. In this paper, we introduce the symposium with an evaluation of the state of knowledge concerning preceramic, archaic communities up to the Formative period in the Basin of Mexico, with particular emphasis on the dearth of information available concerning paleoenvironment and subsistence. We review some of the recent investigations in the...

  • Estudio Arqueozoológico del sitio precerámico de San Gregorio, Xochimilco, México. (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ximena Ulloa-Montemayor. Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales. Eduardo Corona-M.. José Alberto Cruz. Diana Karina Blancas.

    Uno de los sitios del Precerámico tardío más explorados en los últimos 25 años es San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, Distrito Federal, México. En el mismo se han realizado varias temporadas de excavación por diversos grupos de investigadores y entre los materiales que se han estudiado están los arqueozoológicos. La más reciente excavación no fue la excepción, se obtuvo una colección de animales que nos permiten tener una idea más clara de lo que fue el paisaje y el paleoambiente hace 6200...

  • Geoarchaeological and environmental studies in the Basin of Mexico (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily McClung De Tapia.

    Environmental studies associated with prehispanic settlements in the Basin of Mexico were originally focussed on studies of agricultural potential and productivity, based on ethnographic assessments of essentially modern conditions. However, archaeologists were limited in their access to techniques developed in earth and biological sciences. Niederberger's research at Zohapilco in the southern Basin represents one of the earliest "geoarchaeological" approaches in which a concerted effort to...

  • The Obsidian Industries of Altica, Mexico (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Healan.

    Preliminary analysis of obsidian artifacts recovered from survey and excavation at the Early/Middle Formative site of Altica in the Teotihuacan Valley indicate the presence of several distinct modes of raw material acquisition, reduction, and utilization. These various modes are described from a technological perspective and possible logistical, social, economic, and political correlates are considered. SAA 2015 abstracts made available in tDAR courtesy of the Society for American Archaeology...

  • Paleosols and human activities in the lakebed area of Basin of Mexico during the Middle Holocene (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Iran Rivera. Sergey Sedov.

    During 2013 - 2014 archaeological research was undertaken in San Gregorio (Xochimilco) and Tepexpan, Basin of Mexico, to recover evidence for human activity associated to the preceramic period in the lakebed area of Chalco-Xochimilco and Texcoco. One of the specific objectives of this research is to characterize soil conditions north and south of modern Mexico City, during the early agriculture period (6500-4000 BP) by means of paleopedological analysis, and evaluate environmental and...

  • Procedencia e Intercambio de obsidiana durante el Holoceno Medio en la Cuenca de México (ca. 6200-5000 calBP). Un análisis mediante pXRF (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Víctor Hugo García Gómez. Guillermo Acosta Ochoa.

    Se caracterizó mediante análisis de Fluorescencia de Rayos X (XRF) un conjunto de obsidianas obtenidas en las excavaciones en el sitio de Tepexpan, Edo. de México y San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, D.F. (n=149), procedentes de los niveles precerámicos de ambos sitios, através del análisis de diversos elementos (Na, K, Ti, Mn, Fe, RB, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb y Ba); esto nos permitió conocer la composición química de cada uno de los artefactos líticos para posteriormente efectuar comparaciones con...

  • Restos botánicos del sitio Precerámico de San Gregorio Atlapulco. (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Martinez-Yrizar. Carmen Cristina Adriano Morán. Emilio Ibarra-Morales. Isay Alan Martínez-Flores.

    El sitio de San Gregorio Atlapulco (conocido como El Japón) se localiza al sureste de la Cuenca de México en la delegación Xochimilco. Su estudio se inició en la década de los 90´s reportándose montículos ocupacionales y chinampas asociadas al Postclásico Tardío (1450-1521). En años recientes se retoma la investigación en el lugar en el marco del proyecto Poblamiento, Agricultura inicial y Sociedades Aldeanas en la Cuenca de México (PAPIIT IG400513-3). Uno de sus objetivos es aportar nuevos...

  • Soil, landsurfaces and settlements under lava: the case of Cuicuilco, Mexico (2015)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgina Ibarra. Felipe Ramírez. Elizabeth Solleiro. Sergey Sedov.

    First societies based on agriculture settled Mexico Basin around 3000 years ago (from BC 1500 to AD 100), during Formative period, according to Mesoamerican chronology. Cuicuilco is one and probably the first of these Formative sites in Mexico Basin and is located in the southern part of Mexico City, in an area covered by lava flows from the Xitle volcano, named as El Pedregal. The age of the eruption has been established around 1,670+/- 35 years B.P. It is considered that Cuicuilco was probably...