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Waterfall Cave, Southern Chihuahua, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert Ascher  and
Francis J. Clune Jr.
Robert Ascher
Affiliation:
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Francis J. Clune Jr.
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Abstract

This cave in the Sierra Madre Occidental was excavated to obtain information from a little-known region which might help clarify problems of Mexican-Southwestern contacts. The excavation produced ten burials with associated mats and blankets, only a few artifacts, and both cultivated and gathered plant remains. Stylistic elements of Mogollon and Casas Grandes pottery and the cultivated plants suggest a beginning date of A.D. 1000; the lack of European artifacts, a terminal date of 1600. The death complex is interpreted by analogy with modern Tarahumara practices. The use of the cave is described in terms of a series of events and episodal analysis is presented as a way of operationalizing the conjunctive approach.

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American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , October 1960 , pp. 270 - 274
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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