essay
Miscellaneous bedrock and boulder carvings
ancient chalcatzingo • Austin • Published In 1987 • Pages: 159-170
By: Grove, David C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Grove provides an inventory describing a variety of stone carvings discovered mostly in survey at the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo. Very few are found in unambiguous or undisturbed context, and there are few temporally diagnostic features. Any and all therefore may date to any time from the later Early Formative through Postclassic periods. Only objects MCR-5, -6 and -7 are conjectured to pertain to the pertinent Middle Formative period Cantera phase. Most intriguing are: 1) a possible architectural model or three dimensional map of the site at that time emphasizing the flow of 'sacred water' (MCR-8); and 2) hollows and grooves typically carved in peripheral areas of the site, perhaps meant to capture and channel rainwater for ritual purposes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- Archaeological inventories
- Mining and quarrying
- Water supply
- Ethnogeography
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Olmec
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leon G. Doyon ; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3500 BP-650 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chalcatzingo, Morelos State, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- David C. Grove
- For bibliographical references see Grove: 1987 (Document 3)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85022673
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Olmecs