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Obsidian Dates from Temesco, Valley of Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Keith A. Dixon
Keith A. Dixon*
Affiliation:
California State College, Long Beach, California
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Abstract

This paper reports a series of obsidian hydration dates from Temesco, a small Terminal Late Preclassic ceremonial site in the Valley of Mexico. Temesco is located in the Texcoco Plains, an area which may have played a key role in the emergence of the elaborate Classic Period Teotihuacan civilization. Analysis of ceramics and cross-dating with radiocarbon dates from Cuicuilco suggest that Temesco was a short-span site of the first century B.C. Confidence in this conclusion is reinforced by obsidian dates as an independent line of evidence giving approximately the same result.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 5Part1 , July 1966 , pp. 640 - 643
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1966

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