Residential Excavations at Los Guachimontones, Jalisco: Household Activities and Population Estimates

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From the Underworld to the Heavens: Expanding the Study of Central Jalisco’s Past" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Research on the Teuchitlan Culture of central Jalisco has prioritized the monumental architecture, with less consideration of household activities and practices. We recently initiated a long-term project to excavate a sample of households from the center to the periphery of Los Guachimontones. We excavated Group 39 in the upper Loma Alta sector of the settlement. Our goals were to better understand household activities, including craft production, household ritual, and any specialized use of space. We present here a description of the excavations and a summary of our findings. We compare some of our results to the previous excavations of the more centrally located residential groups La Joyita A and B at Los Guachimontones.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• From the Underworld to the Heavens: Expanding the Study of Central Jalisco’s Past

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Abstract Id(s): 50728