Dendro-14C-Wiggle-Match Contributions to Northwestern Mesoamerican Chronology

Summary

This paper reports on the progress of the Dendro-14C wiggle-matching project begun in 2013. Initial work established the feasibility of the methods and availability of the data. This paper will report on the ways in which the data can aid in cultural interpretation in northwestern Mesoamerican regions. A focus will be on dating the construction of high status areas at the sites of La Quemada and Los Pilarillos in the Malpaso Valley, Zacatecas, and their chronological relationship to construction in public areas at both La Quemada and at the site of Alta Vista, a culturally related and roughly contemporaneous site about 150 miles northwest of the Malpaso Valley, located in Chalchihuites, Zacatecas. Though this project is initially geographically narrow, because the methods used here are cumulative, additional data and research can provide great advances in our knowledge of Mesoamerican culture-history in larger-scale regional interactions.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
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