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ANTHROPOMORPHIC PEG-BASED SCULPTURES FROM THE BANDERAS VALLEY OF COASTAL WEST MEXICO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Joseph B. Mountjoy  and
José C. Beltrán
Joseph B. Mountjoy
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, 1000 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA
José C. Beltrán
Affiliation:
Centro Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Lerdo 76, and Museum Regional de Nayarit, Avenida México 91, Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
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Abstract

Both the accidental as well as the purposeful discovery of a large number of anthropomorphic peg-based sculptures in the Banderas Valley in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit during the 1990s have provided a corpus of contextual and iconographic data that, along with conquest-period ethnographic data, allow for an assessment of the date and function of such figures. In addition, because of the similarity of these sculptural figures to ones of comparable dates in Central America, the case for significant pre-Hispanic coastal contacts between the two areas is reinforced.

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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , July 2005 , pp. 155 - 168
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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