Flint Artifacts in Salinas de los Nueve Cerros: An Approach to Production and Consumption

Author(s): Edgar Carpio

Year: 2021

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper presents the preliminary data from a study that has been carried out on a considerable collection of flint artifacts from Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, Guatemala. These were uncovered during the excavations of the site over eight field seasons. Flint is a local resource in Salinas and it was widely used to produce many objects mainly used as cutting tools.

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Flint Artifacts in Salinas de los Nueve Cerros: An Approach to Production and Consumption. Edgar Carpio. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467448)

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Keywords

General
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis • Craft Production • Highland Mesoamerica: Classic

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Maya highlands

Spatial Coverage

min long: -94.197; min lat: 14.009 ; max long: -87.737; max lat: 18.021 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 32285