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Excavations in Cave Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico

A Preliminary Note*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert H. Lister*
Affiliation:
Division of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Extract

Archaeological research in Chihuahua, Mexico, is something that has been talked about a great deal recently, but little in the way of field work has been accomplished. During the 1930's there was a spurt in archaeological activities in that area which saw a number of individuals conducting surveys and small scale excavations mainly in the northwestern part of the state. Reports on much of this work, and upon field work accomplished earlier, appeared in this same period. But since that time very little has been accomplished. As more knowledge of the prehistory of southern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and central Mexico became available, attention was focused on north central Mexico, including Chihuahua, as a key area in which might be found answers to many existing problems, especially those dealing with Southwestern-Mexican connections. In the period since World War II, J. Charles Kelley has reported upon work in southern Chihuahua in the Rio Conchos drainage, and the University of New Mexico conducted investigations in the Bolson de Mapimi in southwestern Chihuahua. The latter work, however, is unreported.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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Footnotes

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This research has been supported by the Council on Research and Creative Work, of the University of Colorado, and by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. I am most grateful to both organizations for their assistance.

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