Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This session focuses on the relationships between two Formative cultural cores: Chupícuaro in the Lerma valley and Cuicuilco in the Basin of Mexico, exploring the ceramic materials. In order to clarify the nature and intensity of these relationships, this symposium presents the first results of an interdisciplinary research project (CHUPICERAM) that focuses on the ceramic production processes, from the raw materials acquisition strategy to the finished product. A range of complementary tools used by archaeology, geology, and physico-chemical sciences are mobilized in order to identify the raw material provenance, define the manufacturing methods and recipes, and retrace the possible circulation networks. The methodical comparative approach is based on a representative sampling and integrating recent archaeological assemblages from the Chupícuaro region, and museum collections built up during excavations carried out in the first half of the twentieth century, both in Chupícuaro and Cuicuilco. These collections are evaluated with high-performance instrumentation adapted to sherds and/or complete objects: techno-stylistic study based on the analytical tool of chaîne opératoire, petrographic and mineralogical characterization, a wide range of chemical analyses, and a full set of noninvasive techniques. The crossing of all these data will make it possible to overcome the limits induced by stylistic analogies.
Other Keywords
Formative •
Ceramic Analysis •
Material Culture and Technology •
Chronology •
Collections •
Museums •
Raw Materials •
Craft Production •
Cuenca de México •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis
Geographic Keywords
Colima (State / Territory) •
Michoacan (State / Territory) •
Jalisco (State / Territory) •
Nayarit (State / Territory) •
Aguascalientes (State / Territory) •
Guanajuato (State / Territory) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Mesoamerica: Western •
Hidalgo (State / Territory)
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Analyses of Pastes and Polychromy of Chupícuaro Pottery: A Diachronic Comparison Using a Noninvasive Approach (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pottery is one of the hallmarks of the societies that emerged in the present-day Acámbaro Valley known as the Chupícuaro culture (ca. 600–100 BC). The aesthetic features of Chupícuaro ceramics range from complex forms of monochrome ware to polychrome varieties based on three main...
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Characterization of Chupícuaro and Cuicuilco Ceramics Technical Traditions: Preliminary Results (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the last decades, the existence of stylistic similarities between Chupícuaro ceramics and those found in some Preclassic sites in the Basin of Mexico has raised questions on the nature of the interactions between these two regions. In this paper, we will present the preliminary...
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Geochemical Investigation of Chupícuaro Ceramic Wares (Formative Mesoamerica) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the framework of the CHUPICERAM project, we perform geochemical analyses to investigate the chemical composition of the pastes and the decorations of ceramic wares excavated from two different archaeological sites (TR6 / JR24) and assigned to two different periods (Chupícuaro /...
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Historia de los trabajos y las colecciones cerámicas de Cuicuilco con presencia Chupícuaro (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La presencia de ciertos elementos de la tradición Chupícuaro en varios sitios de la Cuenca de México, durante el Preclásico tardío y terminal, es apreciada principalmente en la cerámica y las figurillas. Entre éstos ejemplos, destaca Cuicuilco, ya que desde sus primeras excavaciones se...
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La colección Chupícuaro del Museo Nacional de Antropología: Conformación e investigaciones (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A finales de la década de 1910 llegaban al Museo Nacional de México los primeros objetos de la cultura Chupícuaro como parte de la colección Guillermo Heredia. Posteriormente en 1926 se integraban aquellos que procedían de las excavaciones de Ramón Mena y Porfirio Aguirre, y durante los...
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Soil Micromorphology Applied to Ceramics from Chupícuaro: The Search of Raw Materials in Volcanic Contexts (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Regional geology affects the mineralogical and geochemical footprints of ceramics components, yet in relative homogeneous areas, the first approximations of ceramic petrogroups can be difficult to define. One approach is to apply concepts derived from soil micromorphology, regarding...
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The Turbulent Archaeological History of Relations between Chupícuaro and Cuicuilco Revisited through Ceramics: An Overview (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of interregional social relations is a subject that has been explored extensively by Mesoamerican archaeology and has traditionally relied on similarities between their respective material productions, especially pottery. During the twentieth century, stylistic analogies...