Assessing mobilities and interactions between the Lerma Valley and Zacapu, Michoacán during the Classic. Results of a ceramic analysis by chaines operatoires.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Michoacán and West Mexico: New Research in Interaction, Exchange, and Mobility" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This research focuses on the Lerma Valley, located at the interface between the lacustrine regions of Michoacán and the southwestern region of Bajío, and the Zacapu Basin. We aim to culturally characterize its populations during the Classic period (200-600 AD), using the technological approach of chaînes operatoires. From the characterization of technical traditions, defined as an inherited way of doing things and therefore the expression of a social group, we evaluate the degree of cultural kinship and the nature of interactions between potters, as well as the phenomena of human mobility that may have taken place between the regions studied. Our results highlight two technical traditions: productions made by coiling and by molding. We propose that the presence of the same traditions in the Lerma Valley and in Zacapu reflects a common learning path among the groups of potters, highlighting the existence of social links that may have consisted of kinship ties.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Michoacán and West Mexico: New Research in Interaction, Exchange, and Mobility   •
• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

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Abstract Id(s): 50504