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Preclassic household patterns preserved under volcanic ash at Tetimpa, Puebla, Mexico

Latin American antiquity : a journal of the Society for American Archaeology9 (4)Published In 1998 • Pages: 287-309

By: Plunket, Patricia Scarborough.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Plunket and Uruñuela excavated at Tetimpa, a village in a region that was buried by volcanic ash. When people evacuated, they left behind many of their domestic artifacts, providing archaeologists a unique look at rural life that includes agricultural fields. Plunket and Uruñuela describe several house compounds they found along with the artifacts, features, and some interesting volcano effigy shrines within the compounds. They found that domestic space was standardized and that the layout was used in later apartment compounds at Teotihuacan.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Household
Dwellings
Building interiors and arrangement
Sacred objects and places
Visual arts
traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Central Mexico Classic
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2010
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Middle America and the Caribbean
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Central Mexico
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
article
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Archaeologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
4: Excellent Secondary Data
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Sarah Berry; 2009
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1993
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
2050-1900 BP (50 BC-AD 100)
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Tetimpa, Puebla, Mexico
NotesAdditional notes
Patricia Plunket and Gabriela Uruñuela
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-309)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
91649207
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Mexico--Antiquities