This is the Nahua site of Tepozteco, Morelos, Mexico, near where I worked in Mexico, and of the same, basically, culture
Photo Credit: Randal Sheppard
My favorite stories, oddly enough, are mostly what a goofball I was in my earliest experiences as an archaeologist, and how that goofball slowly and somewhat painfully learned what combination of skills and understanding it takes to really become a professional archaeologist.
The site of Cuexcomate, where I spent eight months in 1986, is a Tlahuica site, a rural community in the state of Morelos, about 150 kilometers from the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (what is today Mexico City). Cuexcomate was a town (we don't know what the occupants called it), that was conquered by the Aztecs in the 15th century. I was excavating at the site under Michael Smith, now of Arizona State, and in those eight months, I learned a lot about what it takes to be an archaeologist.
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Did you ever recover your notes or did Mike just make up something to fill in the missing information? The kind of fudging of course, that I have NEVER done!
Dick Diehl
since you know now what it takes to be an archaeologist i thought you might be able to give us your personal thoughts on an issue. If you were presented with an American assemblage of stone tools made up of unambiguous levalloisian technology, complete with levallois cores,and literally every kind of tool found in mousterian sites abroad, would it change your thoughts on the out of Africa migrations? A clovis point is a clovis point regardless of whether it is found on the west coast or the east coast. Same with mousterian tools, whether they are found in Germany or France or Spain they are still mousterian tools.If found in the U.S., they are still mousterian tools as they are made in a recognizable style just as clovis is now a recognizable style regardless of where it is discovered. Even if it is found on the surface it is still a clovis point and its age is assumed and accepted….rick doninger.
This is not the place to post about your supposedly Levallois site. Mark Corbitt has established a thread on the bulletin board and I want you to put your discussion there. I will be deleting any non-pertinent posts from you (or anybody else) to blogs in the future.
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=8304.1&nav=messages&webtag=ab-archaeology
Kris
Dick: I’m not sure–I don’t really remember. I probably tried to reconstruct them as best as I could.
Kris