Cultural Dynamics and Production Activities in Ancient Western Mexico

Contents

INTRODUCTION (Eduardo Williams); THE CHALLENGES OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN FLOOD-PRONE AREAS: UNDERSTANDING OCCUPATION DYNAMICS ON THE LERMA RIVER (Véronique Darras, Vincent Bichet, Christophe Petit, Laure Deodat); THE CERRO BARAJAS SITES DURING THE EPICLASSIC PERIOD: LOCAL RESOURCES AND IMPORTED PRODUCTS (Gérald Migeon); NEGOTIATING SPACE AND LANDSCAPE IN PRE-HISPANIC LAKE PÁTZCUARO: SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS OF THE TARASCAN STATE (Christopher Stawski); SPATIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF DISTINCT TYPES OF SCRAPERS IN THE TEQUILA REGION AS INDICAT ORS OF TASK SPECIALIZATION (Verenice Heredia, Camilo Mireles); THE OBSIDIAN JEWELRY OF THE TEUCHITLÁN TRADITION: STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF AN UNKNOWN LITHIC TECHNOLOGY (Rodrigo Esparza); CHANGING PLACES, CHANGING LIFESTYLES: DIFFERING OBSIDIAN ECONOMIES IN TEUCHITLÁN CULTURE (John P. Wagner); WHAT IS A ‘SOURCE AREA’? SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF OBSIDIAN EXPLOITATION IN UCAREO AND ZINAPÉCUARO, MICHOACÁN (Dan M. Healan); RECONSTRUCTING THE POTS: ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF POTTERY PRODUCTION IN CAPULA, MICHOACÁN (José Abraham García Madrigal); DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND DECORATION STYLES IN POTTERY FROM HUÁNCITO, MICHOACÁN: AN ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY (Eduardo Williams); CERAMICS, SOCIAL STATUS, AND THE TARASCAN STATE ECONOMY (Helen Perlstein Pollard); COPPER AS A STRATEGIC RESOURCE IN PRE-HISPANIC WESTERN MEXICO (Blanca Maldonado); CIRCULATION OF GOODS AND COMMUNICATION ROUTES BETWEEN THE ACÁMBARO VALLEY AND CENTRAL MEXICO: FROM CHUPÍCUARO TO TEOTIHUACAN (Brigitte Faugère , Karine Lefèbvre, Jean-François Cuenot); EVALUATING CONTRASTING MODELS OF CERAMIC PRODUCTION IN THE TARASCAN STATE: NEGOTIATIONS IN CLAY (Amy J. Hirshman, David L. Haskell); CERAMIC EVIDENCE OF TEOTIHUACAN CONTACT LINKING THE BASIN OF MEXICO, THE BAJÍO, AND SOUTHERN HIDALGO (Christine Hernández)