Obsidian Dates from Temesco, Valley of Mexico
- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 31 (5Part1) , 640-643
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2694489
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.Keywords
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