Early Formative Interaction on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala: A Ceramic Perspective

Visiting the New World Archaeological Foundation Collections

In December of 2003, and after almost completing the coding of our Guatemalan collections, we (my two student assistants, Jenny Guerra and Karen Pereira) visited the Early Formative ceramic collections at the New World Archaeological Foundation (NWAF) in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México. Permits to visit the collections were granted by Dr. John E. Clark, director of NWAF at the time.

I had done fieldwork in Chiapas in 1990 and laboratory analysis in 1994, so I was familiar with the pottery but needed to study it again. In addition, I wanted to include a small ceramic sample (one stratigraphic excavation) from Chiapas in our database for comparative analysis. We coded 786 sherds using the same coding system from our Guatemalan sample, so that the information could be comparable. All sherds came from the site of Aquiles Serdan. The information will be included in the final chapter of the pottery comparisons to be included in my Guatemalan Early Formative monograph.

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