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Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 08 February 2013  Page Views: 3737

Multi-periodSite Name: Cerro De Trincheras
Country: Mexico Region: Mexico Other Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Trincheras
Latitude: 30.393050N  Longitude: 111.53314W
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Cerro De Trincheras submitted by bat400_photo : Cerro De Trincheras - Archeological site in northern Sonora, Mexico. Photo by Artotem, 23 June 2009, 08:37, at flickr. Uploaded by PDTillman This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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Dig finds that ancient groups cremated and buried their dead in ceramics by bat400 on Thursday, 07 February 2013
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Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH-Conaculta) keep acquiring knowledge of funerary practices in the ancient groups that inhabited the north of Sonora, such as the incineration and burial (in pots) of their departed, a custom that has been known to archaeologists since the finding of a pre Hispanic cemetery of approximately 700 years old in the Archaeological Zone of Cerro de Trincheras.

Archaeologist Elisa Villalpando Canchola, who directs the investigation in this pre Hispanic site, said the location of this funerary context is so enriching (found in the north hillside of Cerro de Trincheras) it has been named “Loma de las cremaciones” [Hill of cremations]

Because the site shows a lot of potential (archaeologically), they took the decision to leave “Loma de las cremaciones” as an archaeological reserve. As such, Villalpando Canchola added that the discovery of the pre Hispanic cemetery can be known until today because they wanted to study the archaeological context.

The cemetery, added the INAH-Sonora’s Center investigator, was only intervened in a 10 by 10 meter (32.8 feet by 32.8 feet) area, and by means of making strategic wells, they corroborated that this funerary pattern can be repeated along the small hill, so in this case they took advantage of the less deep parts of the hill.

In this restrained section they located 145 pots that contained human remains (belonging to about 150 individuals) and incinerated animals, as well as two stone pit cremations and one more deposited directly over the ground. Also, they excavated three child burials.

The pots emphasized by their variety of shapes and forms; some represent pumpkins, others are oval shaped with two perforations, or with a tall neck and a larger mouth (like flower pots). They also found earthenware bowls, one of these was decorated. All the ceramic collection belongs to what is known as the “Tradicion Trincheras”, from the lower desert zone of Sonora.

From the pots, they recovered the cremated remains of almost 150 individuals (some pots contained two individuals’ remains), some of which were incinerated with rock beads, crystal quartz, frog shaped earrings, bracelets and shell rings. This is concluded as most of the materials were burnt and fragmented.

All these findings and interpretations will be a part of a museographic script of what will be the permanent exposition of the Visiting Center of Cerro de Trincheras, the first archaeological zone open to the public in Sonora.

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