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1990 Excavations at Paso de la Amada: Early Formative Chiefdoms in Southeastern Mexico Blake, Michael, John E. Clark, Vicki L. Feddema, Richard G. Lesure, and Michael Ryan

Abstract

This report describes the 1990 U.B.C. and B.Y.U.-New World Archaeological Foundation excavations at the Early Formative Period site of Paso de la Amada, on the Pacific Coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Excavations were carried out as part of a one year SSHRC-funded, and N.W.A.F. supported excavation at the site, continuing with our work first begun in 1985. Here we provide an introduction to the 1990 excavations, with descriptions of the principal discoveries in Mound 6, and the test pits in Mounds 7, 10, 11, 12, and 13, as well as four off-mound test pits. We offer preliminary interpretations of the findings so far, including their implications for the regional chronology, environment, subsistence, sedentism, demography, architecture, ceramic technology, and the emergence of chiefdoms.

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1990 Excavations at Paso de la Amada: Early Formative Chiefdoms in Southeastern Mexico
Creator
Blake, Michael, John E. Clark, Vicki L. Feddema, Richard G. Lesure, and Michael Ryan
Contributor
University of British Columbia. Laboratory of Archaeology
Date Issued
1992
Description
This report describes the 1990 U.B.C. and B.Y.U.-New World Archaeological Foundation excavations at the Early Formative Period site of Paso de la Amada, on the Pacific Coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Excavations were carried out as part of a one year SSHRC-funded, and N.W.A.F. supported excavation at the site, continuing with our work first begun in 1985. Here we provide an introduction to the 1990 excavations, with descriptions of the principal discoveries in Mound 6, and the test pits in Mounds 7, 10, 11, 12, and 13, as well as four off-mound test pits. We offer preliminary interpretations of the findings so far, including their implications for the regional chronology, environment, subsistence, sedentism, demography, architecture, ceramic technology, and the emergence of chiefdoms.
Subject
Mesoamerican archaeology; Mazatan Region; Chiapas; Mokaya; Mound excavations; Early Formative households; Locona phase; Barra phase; Ocós phase
Genre
Report
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2011-10-25
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0080661
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38241
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Anthropology, Department of
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Michael Blake/UBC Laboratory of Archaeology
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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