Survey and Architecture of Piedra Labrada, Guerrero, Mexico

Summary

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

Recent surveying and excavation works on the coast of the state of Guerrero and Oaxaca has shown that this is a region with ample archaeological potential. Dr. Román Piña Chan who made several visits during the sixties in that area, already indicated that the systematic study of the coast, would allow us to understand the development of various groups located in the central valleys of Oaxaca, as well as those established in the central highlands. The present poster focuses on one of the sites with the greatest amount of sculpture and monumental architecture found in the Costa Chica of the state of Guerrero. This site is Piedra Labrada, which has a large concentration of architectural complexes distributed throughout the site, as well as 23 sculptures that decorate the different public spaces of the pre-Hispanic city. In this poster I will present the results of the surface survey made on the site, as well as the association of the architectural spaces with the sculpture that is scattered throughout it.

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

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 26320