New light on the prehistoric Purrón Dam Complex: Small corporate group collaboration in the Tehuacán Valley, Puebla, México

作者: James A. Neely , Michael J. Aiuvalasit , Vincent A. Clause

DOI: 10.1179/2042458215Y.0000000010

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摘要: AbstractThe 2003 and 2004 surveys at the Purron Dam Complex (PDC) demonstrate value of resurveying previously studied areas. Additional habitation sites, water management features, a cave with pictographs, major canal were discovered, increasing number recorded sites from eight to 57. From this survey, collected ceramics synthesis 12 chronometric dates suggest that was initiated in complex by Early Formative times ca. 1050–1100 b.c., completed Middle Period (ca. 650–450 b.c.), when settlements small decentralized. This challenges previous interpretations place PDC florescence during Classic 150 b.c.–a.d.250), period larger aggregated communities displaying social ranking. The results our survey have implications for understanding links between political complexity agricultural intensification, support recent ethnographic archaeological researc...

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