Characterization of Chupícuaro and Cuicuilco Ceramics Technical Traditions: Preliminary Results

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

For the last decades, the existence of stylistic similarities between Chupícuaro ceramics and those found in some Preclassic sites in the Basin of Mexico has raised questions on the nature of the interactions between these two regions. In this paper, we will present the preliminary results of the reconstruction of the chaînes opératoires of ceramic material from collections from Chupícuaro sites TR6 and JR24, as well as some ceramic collections from Cuicuilco. We propose that applying a study of chaînes opératoires of ceramic materials, which we view as an alternative method to the typology approach, will allow us to characterize the technical traditions of the pottery communities of the sites we researched. Their comparison will allow us first to characterize the know-how involved in the ceramic production of both societies, and secondly to evaluate the presence or absence of a social affiliation between the Chupícuaro potters and those of the Basin of Mexico.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Reassessing Chupícuaro–Cuicuilco Relationships in Light of Ceramic Production (Formative Mesoamerica)

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Abstract Id(s): 38183.0