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Metal Artifacts from Amapa, Nayarit, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David M. Pendergast
David M. Pendergast*
Affiliation:
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Abstract

Artifacts recovered during U.C.L.A. excavations in 1959 are described in terms of a new typological classification for Mesoamerican metal artifacts. In addition to a number of artifact types known elsewhere in Mesoamerica, the excavations yielded several new forms. Possible relationships of Amapa, and West Mexico in general, to other areas of Mesoamerica, suggested by similarities in metal artifacts, are discussed. Association of metals with Mazapan figurines suggests an initial date for appearance of metal artifacts at Amapa of roughly A.D. 900; terminal date for the Amapa occupation may be around 1200.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , January 1962 , pp. 370 - 379
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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