Suchil River Valley Archaeological Project, Zacatecas and Durango, 2005 Season
Translation of the Spanish by Eduardo Williams
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Research Year:  2005
Culture:  Chalchihuites
Chronology:  Classic and Postclassic
Location:  Suchil River Valley, northwestern Zacatecas and southern Durango, Mexico
Sites:  Alta Vista, Cerro Moctezuma, Mesa la Gloria, Ejido Cárdenas, Nopalera Grande, El Vesuvio, La Soledad, Loma Flores, Punta Peñasco, La Lagunita

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Abstract
Introduction
Sampling Method
Initial Results
Preliminary Considerations
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Sources Cited

Abstract

The Suchil River Valley Project has the objective of studying the socioeconomic complexity process that different sedentary groups inhabiting the region experienced through time. This investigation tries to characterize the changes that occurred within these settled populations and that during the first millennium of our era formed what we now know now as the Chalchihuites culture. Mining activities together with the production of prestige goods are topics of relevance that we have decided to investigate in order to comprehend the political and ideological institutions of the communities. The regional archaeological surface survey sponsored by FAMSI has produced important data that is presented here as a basic preliminary typology regarding the sites that integrate this social system.

Submitted 06/28/2006 by:
Guillermo Córdova Tello
guicotell@hotmail.com

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