Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Fowler.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. According to Nahuatl linguists, especially Dakin and Pharao, Proto-Nahuatl split into Eastern Nahuatl (EN) and Western Nahuatl (WN) dialects as early EN groups moved from central West Mexico into the Teotihuacan Valley. Many specialists argue that EN was the dominant language of Teotihuacan during the Classic period....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Payson Sheets.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Structure 12 at Joya de Ceren was dedicated to divination. The extraordinary preservation, and emergency evacuation of the village, left the diviner’s supernatural toolkit and other materials in their original locations. That provides an almost ethnographic opportunity to reconstruct the diviner’s interactions with a client,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian McKee.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The civil war of El Salvador lasted from 1979 to 1992. More than 75,000 people, primarily civilians, perished. Morazán, in northeastern El Salvador, experienced some of the worst fighting and atrocities of the war. This study integrates archaeological, historical, and interview data to elucidate aspects of the war and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marlon Escamilla.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research explores the earliest Nahua-Pipil settlements established in the Balsam Coast Range of the western part of El Salvador during the Early Postclassic (AD 800-1200) period. Specifically, this study seeks to discuss the possible reasons why the Nahua-Pipil decided to build their settlements in the Balsam Coast Range...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Bruhns.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I In much of Central America there has been a strong tendency to identify archaeological cultures with historic people and/or migrations from Mexico. In El Salvador the Early Postclassic Cihuatán Phase has been various called Toltec, Aztec, and Pipil, although it is manifestly none of the above. Recent work at Cihuatán...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Flores Manzano.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recently, several archaeological sites have been identified using LiDAR in El Salvador, but many are endangered by urban development, looting, and a lack of political support. Numerous other sites remain unidentified, as they are still buried beneath volcanic deposits. This research seeks to highlight the richness of El...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Usulután is a type of resist-decorated pottery common in Late Formative Southern Mesoamerica. This presentation will review the results of compositional analysis of 217 Usulután ceramic samples from sites in Southern Guatemala and Western El Salvador. The compositional data indicates that Usulután pottery was primarily...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Amaroli.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In El Salvador, the first lidar project specifically for archaeological mapping was conducted by NCALM for FUNDAR, with support from the US government and took place in 2018, with productive coverage of Cihuatán, Las Marías and the western flank of Guazapa Volcano. This demonstrated the potential of lidar mapping to further...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Szymanski.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Five field seasons carried out since 2018 at San Isidro, Sonsonate, El Salvador, yielded enough data to formulate first interpretations regarding its size, chronology and possible identities. It appears to be an entirely Preclassic settlement covering well over 6 square kilometers, and controlling an important route between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Kaplan.

This is an abstract from the "Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: The Archaeology of El Salvador" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Proyecto Comunitario Tapalshucut de El Salvador (PACTES) is documenting complex social and cultural transformations in Middle-to-Late Preclassic times in Western El Salvador, focusing on the hitherto almost completely uninvestigated, significantly large (core at least 1-2 k²) archaeological site of...