During our survey, we detected that all the buildings are quadrangular. We also found a couple of structures that allowed us to compare the construction techniques with the ones found by Cuevas. Preliminary results seem to indicate that this tradition was started during the Formative and continued through the Classic. Apart from that, we have […]
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ArqueologÃa y Arquitectura
Friday, October 16, 2009
Entre los estudiantes, generalmente existe un error muy común, que consiste en considerar solamente un aspecto de la Arquitectura al relacionarla con la ArqueologÃa: las técnicas constructivas. A pesar de que este tema tenga por sà mismo una relevancia muy alta, la Arquitectura también puede contribuir a la ArqueologÃa a través del estudio de los […]
Read full post »Things are Moving Really Fast
Friday, October 9, 2009
Analysis is moving fast. With Universidad Veracruzana’s students help, Rodolfo Parra has already analyzed 40% of the ground stone artifacts collected during the survey. Among the collection we have manos and metates, dishes, and hammers. Meanwhile, in the camp-lab Eli, Ramiro & Natalia continue the ceramic analysis. So far, materials indicates an occupation dating from […]
Read full post »Las cosas avanzan rápidamente
Friday, October 9, 2009
El análisis está al máximo. Rodolfo Parra, con ayuda de los estudiantes de ArqueologÃa de la Universidad Veracruzana ha analizado el 40% de los artefactos recolectados durante el recorrido y han encontrado platos, metates, lijas y martillos. Mientras tanto, en el campamento-laboratorio Eli, Ramiro y Natalia siguen analizando la cerámica. Hasta ahora los materiales marcan […]
Read full post »Traveling Ground Stone
Friday, October 2, 2009
After receiving our transport permits from the Consejo de ArqueologÃa (which is a board of 11 eminent archaeologists who regulate the practice of our discipline in Mexico), we embarked on the difficult task of moving all the ground stone we collected during the survey. We loaded 442 tagged bags and 10 individual fragments in two […]
Read full post »La peregrinación de la lÃtica pulida
Friday, October 2, 2009
Luego de recibir nuestros permisos correspondientes del Consejo de ArqueologÃa (formado por un comité de 11 arqueólogos destacados que regula la práctica de nuestra disciplina en el paÃs), abordamos la difÃcil tarea de trasladar todos los fragmentos de lÃtica pulida recuperados durante el reconocimiento de superficie. Se cargaron 442 bolsas y 10 piezas en dos […]
Read full post »Intentando organizar todo…
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Luego de finalizar la clasificación preliminar de los artefactos de acuerdo a su industria y a la material prima, ¡estamos realmente asustados debido a la gran cantidad de materiales pendientes de análisis! El proceso para analizar cerámica es simple pero muy sistemático: abrimos las bolsas, separamos la cerámica en los tipos previamente definidos por la […]
Read full post »Trying to Put Everything Together
Thursday, September 24, 2009
After finishing the preliminary classification of artifacts according to their industry and raw material, we are genuinely scared about the amount of pieces left for analysis!! The process for ceramics is simple but very systematic: we open the bags, separate the sherds in types previously defined by Dr. Annick Daneels for the region, then we […]
Read full post »The Analysis Begins
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
This past week, we began the analysis of the archaeological materials collected during the survey. Firstly, we divided the materials according to six different categories: Ceramics, that will be analyzed by Natalia; ground stones, in charge of Rodolfo Parra; flaked stone and figurines, which will be classified by Jonathan; special artifacts, analyzed by Natalia and […]
Read full post »El Análisis Comienza
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Esta semana hemos comenzado el análisis dividiendo todo el material recolectado en seis categorÃas de análisis: Cerámica, de la que se hará cargo Natalia; lÃtica pulida, que la analizará Rodolfo Parra; lÃtica tallada y figurillas, que clasificará Jonathan; los artefactos especiales serán analizados por Natalia y Jonathan; finalmente la miscelánea por Natalia, Rodolfo y Jonathan. […]
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