Preliminary Report of SUNY-Buffalo Investigations at La Quemada, Zacatecas, 1987 and 1988 Seasons

Author(s): Ben Nelson

Year: 1989

Summary

Fieldwork from the 1987 and 1988 seasons at La Quemada

Cite this Record

Preliminary Report of SUNY-Buffalo Investigations at La Quemada, Zacatecas, 1987 and 1988 Seasons. Ben Nelson. 1989 ( tDAR id: 495997) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8495997

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Keywords

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Mineral • Shell • Wood

Site Name
La Quemada • Malpaso Valley

Site Type
Ancient Communal / Public Structure • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Ball Court • Building Substructure • Causeway • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Encampment • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • House • Non-Domestic Structures • Palace • Platform Mound • Plaza • Pyramid • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Settlements • Sheet Midden • Stairway • Temple • Terrace • Town / City • Trash Midden

Investigation Types
Architectural Documentation • Architectural Survey • Bioarchaeological Research • Collections Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Environment Research • Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Geophysical Survey • Heritage Management • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey

General
AMS Radiocarbon Dating • Archaeobotanical Analysis • Archaeomagnetic Dating • Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis • Ceramic Figurine • Ceramic Production and Exchange • Charcoal Analysis • Chronological Seriation • Figurines, West Mexico • Groundstone & Lithic Analysis • Human-Environmental Interactions • Long-Distance Exchange Networks • Northern expansion of Mesoamerica • Obsidian Source Analysis • ritual practice • Social Complexity

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerican Northern Periphery • North West Mexico

Temporal Keywords
Epiclassic

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 600 to 900

Spatial Coverage

min long: -102.879; min lat: 22.41 ; max long: -102.796; max lat: 22.491 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Andrea Torvinen; Ben Nelson

Principal Investigator(s): Ben Nelson; Andrea Torvinen

Sponsor(s): Arizona State Universtity

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