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A Possible Pyramidal Structure and other Mexican Influences at Pottery Mound, New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frank C. Hibben
Frank C. Hibben*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Abstract

Excavations at the site of Pottery Mound, 40 mi. south and west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, give evidence that the first structure at the site was a large, flat-topped pyramid built in two terraces. Four Pueblo IV architectural levels are superimposed on top of this structure. Sixteen painted kivas in association with the Pueblo IV room tiers retained on their walls a number of multi-layered fresco paintings. These paintings show macaws, other varieties of parrots, jaguars, and possibly Mexican Indians. The flat-topped mound and the ceremonial implications of the frescoes seem Mexican-inspired. The mound may date in the late Pueblo III period. The superimposed architectural levels and the frescoes date in the early Pueblo IV period.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 1966 , pp. 522 - 529
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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