Ancient Mesoamerica

Table of Contents - 2006 - Volume 17, Issue 02  


SPECIAL SECTION: MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SHAFT TOMBS IN WESTERN MEXICO: AN HOMENAJE TO PHIL WEIGAND

LATE FORMATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE SAYULA BASIN OF SOUTHERN JALISCO

Francisco  Valdez  a1 c1 , Jean Pierre  Emphoux  a1 , Rosario  Acosta  a2 , Susana  Ramírez  a2 , Javier  Reveles  a2 and Otto  Schöndube  a3
a1 Laboratoire ERMES, Chargé de Recherche à L'Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération (ORSTOM), Technoparc 5, rue du Carbone, 45072 Orléans cedex 2, France
a2 Departmento de Estudios Mesoamericanos y Mexicanos, Universidad de Guadalajara, Gregorio Dávila 68, CP 44200, Guadalaraja, Jalisco, Mexico
a3 Museo Regional de Guadalajara, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico

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Abstract

A regional study of the settlement patterns in the Sayula Basin (Jalisco) has recently found Late Formative sites with related Shaft Tomb Period funerary evidence. This article presents the habitation and mortuary deposits of two sites, and it discusses the possible subsistence patterns that combined agriculture with the seasonal exploitation of salt deposits in the region as a basis of daily interaction in a developing rank society.


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c1 E-mail correspondence to: valdez@orleans.orstom.fr