The Turbulent Archaeological History of Relations between Chupícuaro and Cuicuilco Revisited through Ceramics: An Overview

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.

The study of interregional social relations is a subject that has been explored extensively by Mesoamerican archaeology and has traditionally relied on similarities between their respective material productions, especially pottery. During the twentieth century, stylistic analogies concerning ceramic materials between Chupícuaro in the Lerma valley (Guanajuato) and Cuicuilco in the Basin of Mexico, led to diverse interpretations involving population movements, commercial interactions, and ideological influences, which often granted Chupícuaro a primal position as a possible area of emigration or as a prominent ceramic production center disseminating its beautiful products over long distances. After a brief overview of these different interpretations, we present the issues and challenges of the CHUPICERAM project that seeks to renew our understanding of these relations by fully exploiting the information potential of the ceramic production processes, from the raw materials acquisition strategy to the finished product.

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): 38386.0