Las Bocas, Puebla, Archaeological Project

Lithic objects

During the explorations conducted in 2000, numerous artifacts of carved and polished stone were excavated, together with chips and other carving debris. The materials used in the manufacturing process were mainly obsidian (Photo 31), silex or chert (Photo 32) and greenstone.

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The assemblage of polished stone artifacts, together with those explored in 1998 in pits III and IV, corresponding to square A1 from the year 2000, were analyzed by the P.A. José Rodríguez Yc, from ENAH, and are included in this report under the title: Analysis of Grinding Implements from Las Bocas, Puebla. Season 2000. (Appendix 1).

The carved stone tools are presently under analysis.

Also, we recovered a carved, greenstone object, with an incised, excavated decoration which represents the "Blazing Eyebrow" of the Olmec dragon (Reilly III, 1995). It is a portable object with the following dimensions: length: 8.8 cm, maximum width: 1.2 cm, minimum width 0.8 mm, color: Dark Greenish Gray 3/10 BG.

Shell:
Several shell objects were excavated, together with complete and fragmentary shells, from the construction fill of the structure and the occupational levels of the floors.

The objects include quadrangular pendants, 2.6 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, with four perforations at the extremes. They were excavated in square F-4, metric level 9, at a depth of 1.67 m and in the B3 square, level 8.

Triangular pendants with a perforation at one apex, maximum width: 2.7 cm, minimum width: 2.3 cm.  They were explored in the B1 square, Floor 2, at a depth of 1.15 m.

A schematic representation of the upper frontal portion of the jaguar head, carved in two shell flakes from the same section. The larger one is 4.1 cm long and 2.6 cm wide, the smaller one is 3.4 cm long and 1.8 cm wide. They have incised and excised decoration representing the eyes and fangs of the jaguar. They were explored in the F-4 square, at a depth of .53 cm.

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