Some Temporal Markers in Olmec Pottery from Los Soldados

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Los Soldados has been considered by many to be a secondary center with respect to La Venta due to its proximity to the capital; however, in the absence of a tuned ceramic chronology for the Middle Preclassic, this cannot be corroborated. Over a number of seasons, the Arroyo Pesquero Archaeological Project has carried out excavations at Los Soldados, and among the proposed objectives was to generate a chronology. However, radiocarbon dating during the Middle Preclassic present inconsistencies, namely chronological fluctuations do not allow to establish a reliable sequence. For this reason, we intend to carry out a stylistic and morphological analysis that shows the variations in the ceramics materials from this settlement. Thus, this presentation intends to show some morphological transformations identified in the types, shapes and decorations of the archaeological ceramics of Los Soldados. When combined with stratigraphy and excavation data these data can serve as chronological markers and solve the issues of the regional radiocarbon during the Middle Preclassic to be able to approach a reliable regional typology.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26293