Late Formative Archaeology in the Sayula Basin of Southern Jalisco

Valdez, Francisco; Emphoux, Jean Pierre; Acosta, Rosario; Ramírez, Susana García; Reveles, Javier; Schöndube, Otto

doi:10.1017/s0956536106060147

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A preliminary bioarchaeological study of the funerary urns from Los Tamarindos, Tierra Caliente, in Michoacan, Mexico

Budziszewski

2023

Ancient Mesoam

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This article presents the results of a preliminary bioarchaeological study of 10 funerary urns containing human burned remains from the Los Tamarindos urn-field cemetery dated to the Postclassic period. I was able to determine the basic biological profile data. In addition, I determined the fragmentation rate as well as the thermal alternation of bones from funerary urns from Los Tamarindos, which allowed me to propose the first observations about the Pretarascan cremation burial practices in this region. The low weight of bones indicates that burials should be determined as partial burials; however, they contain fragments of bones from each anatomical region. The structure of the bones and the chromatic discoloration caused by the thermal alternation indicate that temperature during the cremation did not exceed 900°C, given that the cremains did not exhibit the recrystallization structure, which is interpreted as a characteristic feature of the high maximum temperature of a funerary pyre during the cremation.

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A preliminary bioarchaeological study of the funerary urns from Los Tamarindos, Tierra Caliente, in Michoacan, Mexico

Budziszewski

2023

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Current Views on Power, Economics, and Subsistence in Ancient Western Mexico

Beekman

2012

The Oxford Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology

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Far western Mexico has occupied an ambiguous position within Mesoamerican research, as the region both displays continuity with Mesoamerican culture and provides informative differences. This article demonstrates that the area has been an integral part of the societal networks that criss-cross Mesoamerica through four major transitions over the Pre-Columbian period. It discusses the origins of agricultural and maritime adaptations (7000–2000 bc), the independent emergence of inequalities (2000–300 bc), politics and power sharing among lineages (300 bc–500/600 ad), and Epiclassic reorganization and the Postclassic expansion of trade networks (500/600–1520 ad).

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Late Formative Archaeology in the Sayula Basin of Southern Jalisco

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A preliminary bioarchaeological study of the funerary urns from Los Tamarindos, Tierra Caliente, in Michoacan, Mexico

A preliminary bioarchaeological study of the funerary urns from Los Tamarindos, Tierra Caliente, in Michoacan, Mexico

Current Views on Power, Economics, and Subsistence in Ancient Western Mexico

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