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Stone Crosses with a Cuicuilco Burial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jack T. Hughes*
Affiliation:
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum Canyon, Texas

Extract

A recent article (Howard 1954) has described certain occurrences of cruciform artifacts in the Sierra Occidental from the Valley of Mexico to southern Arizona. The Valley of Mexico occurrence was reported in an earlier article (Haury 1945) which illustrates one of the objects (Fig. 2 x), and describes it as a “Cross (soft calcareous stone), Cuicuilco (Arizona State Museum collection, No. 13862)” (p. 61). I presume the specimen to be one found by Cummings during his excavations at the pyramid in 1924–25. The present article reports the discovery of 4 additional stone crosses at Cuicuilco in 1942.

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Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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References

Haury, E. W. 1945 The Problem of Contacts between the Southwestern United States and Mexico. Southwestern journal of Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 5574. Albuquerque.Google Scholar
Howard, A. McC. 1954 Cruciform Artifacts of the Siena Occidental. American Antiquity, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 174–5. Salt Lake City.Google Scholar