Archaeological Mollusks from Xalla
Author(s): Adrian Velazquez; Norma Valentín; Belem Zúñiga
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "The Palace of Xalla in Teotihuacan: A Possible Seat of Power in the Ancient Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Project “Teotihuacan, élite y gobierno” (Teotihuacan elite and government) has excavated 420 artifacts made of mollusk shells. Ninety-one of them are objects and 166 are valves or fragments that present traces of human modification; 163 are fragments with no traces of human work. In this paper the results of the analyses carried out on this collection are presented, including biological, typological, and technological aspects.
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Archaeological Mollusks from Xalla. Adrian Velazquez, Norma Valentín, Belem Zúñiga. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 466470)
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Keywords
General
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis
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Craft Production
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Highland Mesoamerica: Classic
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Spatial Coverage
min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 32394