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LATE FORMATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE SAYULA BASIN OF SOUTHERN JALISCO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2007
Abstract
A regional study of the settlement patterns in the Sayula Basin (Jalisco) has recently found Late Formative sites with related Shaft Tomb Period funerary evidence. This article presents the habitation and mortuary deposits of two sites, and it discusses the possible subsistence patterns that combined agriculture with the seasonal exploitation of salt deposits in the region as a basis of daily interaction in a developing rank society.
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- SPECIAL SECTION: MORTUARY PRACTICES AND SHAFT TOMBS IN WESTERN MEXICO: AN HOMENAJE TO PHIL WEIGAND
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