Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-tf8b9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T15:00:29.407Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Sub-Pottery Deposit at Copan, Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

John M. Longyear III
John M. Longyear III*
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

During the spring of 1946, a deep stratigraphic trench was excavated at Copan, Honduras by the Carnegie Institution expedition. This trench, dug about 200 m. south of the Acropolis and just west of the old Copan River channel, revealed a complete sequence of the site's ceramic activity, this extending back well into the Archaic period. To make certain that no earlier deposits lay nearby, I made a survey of the old river bank in the general vicinity. The spot finally selected for investigation lay only a few yards south of the eastern end of the stratigraphic trench. Here the river had cut through a low mound and had exposed, underneath, a considerable depth of refuse deposit. The lower half of the river bank was obscured by a clay and dirt talus fallen from above, and so a vertical section, about 5 m. wide, was cut into the bank.

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , January 1948 , pp. 248 - 249
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1948

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Richardson, F. B., and Ruppert, K., “Nicaragua,” Year Book, Carnegie Institution of Washington, No. 41, pp. 269-71, Washington, 1942Google Scholar.