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Research Year:  2003
Culture:  Cholula
Chronology:  Pre-Classic to Epi-Classic
Location:  Puebla, México
Site:  Cholula

Table of Contents

Abstract
Introduction
Methodology
Discussion of Results
The Cholula Pyramid
Rancho de la Virgen
UA-03A-1
Colegio Taylor
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Sources Cited

Abstract

The "Dating Cholula" project was designed to develop an independent chronological sequence for Cholula based on radiocarbon dates derived from excavated archaeological contexts. Funding provided by FAMSI paid for an initial suite of 16 ¹⁴C dates from a number of distinct contexts in Cholula: fill inside the earliest construction phases of the Great Pyramid (samples obtained by the Tetimpa Project), fill from two buried adobe platforms to the northeast of the Pyramid (samples obtained by the Sondeo Arqueológico Rancho de la Virgen 2002), strata with Early Postclassic ceramics on the north side of the main square of San Pedro Cholula (sample obtained by the Sondeo Arqueológico Colegio Coley B. Taylor, 2002), and a bell-shaped pit with Middle Formative ceramics on the Universidad de las Américas campus (samples obtained by the Rescate Arqueológico UA-03A, 2003). These initial dates allow us to confirm an early Middle Formative occupation along the southern edge of the swamps, the emergence of monumental constructions during the second century A.D., and evidence of a major volcanic event that separates the Classic and Postclassic in Cholula.

Submitted 08/31/2004 by:
Dr. Patricia Plunket
plunket@mail.udlap.mx

Dr. Gabriela Uruñuela
gabriela@mail.udlap.mx

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