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Multi-periodSite Name: Cerro De TrincherasCountry: Mexico
NOTE: This site is 59.764 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Mexico Other Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Trincheras
Latitude: 30.393050N Longitude: 111.53314W
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Sonora.
A terraced hillside town, dating to A.D. 1300 - 1450 in the Sonoran desert. The terraces are built of local stone and hug the west north and east flanks of the hill immediately outside the modern village. Home sites include pit houses and stone walled rooms. Population is estimated to have been about 1000.
This site is one of the largest and best defined of the trincheras sites, as well as one of the last built and occupied. Trincheras are found in both what are now Mexico and the United States. The Spanish named the architecture for military fortifications, although the exact reason for this structure is uncertain because of great variablity between these types of sites.
The idea that these towns were primarily a defensive response has given way to other (or additional) theories including an agricultural response to sporatic rainfall, as well as a political or religous motavation for prestige.
In 2012 a visitor's center in the modern village opened to interpret the site. A packed dirt path allows public access to the site where they can view excavated buildings and a plaza. Recent excavtions have uncovered a cemetery of cremated remains buried in jars.
The Arizona State Museum and the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History has an on-line exhibit of photographs and other information about Trincheras Archaeology featuring the aerial photograph of Adriel Heisey.
Note: Archaeological dig finds that ancient groups cremated and buried their departed in pots. See comment.
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