Archaeology in South Central Michoacán México, Ongoing Studies

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology in South Central Michoacán México, Ongoing Studies," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the last six years there is a new effort to understand the archeology of the South Central Michoacan region. This particular area has only been studied by a very few archeological projects that focus in specific zones. In spite of this, the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia set up a large regional project that covers a portion of the Balsas River Basin in the state of Michoacan and in which a large number of students from different Mexican and American universities have participated along with a group of archeologists and researchers form diverse specialties. In this poster session we will present on the ongoing studies using a multidisciplinary approach.

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  • Archaelogical Analysis of a Colonial Copper Smelting Furnace from Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacan, Mexico. (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Andres Francisco Sanchez Guerrero. José Luis Punzo Díaz. Lissandra González González. Juan Julio Morales Contreras.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in South Central Michoacán México, Ongoing Studies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1788 the Spanish Crown wanted to evaluate the mining industry in New Spain in order to start the implementation of new technologies, change the domain and administration of the mines, and create new foundries that would help the mining industry to have more eficiency in all the processes related to this activity. That is...

  • Continuity and Change in Prehispanic and Colonial Pottery Production at Tzintzuntzan (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rangel. Ariana Juárez. Alejandro Valdes. José Luis Punzo Díaz.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in South Central Michoacán México, Ongoing Studies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster examines continuity and change in prehispanic and colonial pottery production at Tzintzuntzan through a typological and petrographic analysis.

  • Evidence of Early Human Occupation at "Cueva de los Hacheros", Michoacán (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dante Martínez Vázquez. José Luis Punzo Díaz. Cinthia M. Campos. Alfonso Gastelum Strozzi. Max E. Ayala.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in South Central Michoacán México, Ongoing Studies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2016, Dr. Jose Luis Punzo-Díaz attended to a complaint from the municipality of Turicato regarding the rockshelter Cueva de los Hacheros. As part of Proyecto de Arqueología y Paisaje del Área Centro Sur de Michoacán, the site was excavated. During excavations, the project discovered evidence of multiple periods of human...

  • A Possible Sculptural Tradition in Eastern Michoacán and Western State of México (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricio Gutierrez. Alfonso Gastelum. José Luis Punzo Díaz. Lissandra González. Dante Martínez.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in South Central Michoacán México, Ongoing Studies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Scant attention has been paid to the past of the current border of the states of Michoacán and Estado de México, though there has been a proposed local archaeological traditions for the region in order to understand archaeological contexts. There are archaeological data about large carved stone sculptures which can lay the...