Jeffrey R. Parsons

In the 1980s, a few traditional saltmakers were still manufacturing several kinds of salt in the eastern Valley of Mexico. This in-depth study of the methodology of this dying craft includes a comparative study of pre-industrial saltmaking around the world and considers the implications of this knowledge for future archaeological research.

An Archaeological Ethnography

The Last Saltmakers of Nexquipayac, Mexico

Charles M. Hastings

Ramiro Matos M.

An archaeological study of ancient settlement patterns in Peru’s rugged and diverse central highlands.

The Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region, Vol. 1, Parts 1 and 2

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

Susan A. Gregg

Keith W. Kintigh

Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Chalco, Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, Texcoco and Zumpango Regions, Mexico

David Wilson

Elizabeth Brumfiel

Mary H. Parsons

The Chalco-Xochimilco Region

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico

James Bennett Griffin

Paul Francis Titterington

David P. Braun

Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Chalco, Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, Texcoco, and Zumpango Regions, Mexico

Ramiro Matos Mendieta

This monograph is based on six months of systematic regional survey in the Wanka Region of Peru¿s sierra central, carried out in two fieldseasons in 1975¿76 by the Junin Archaeological Research Project (JASP) under the co-direction of Jeffrey R. Parsons (University of Michigan) and Ramiro Matos Mendieta (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos). It describes some 287 archaeological sites within a survey area of ca. 445 square kilometers lying between ca. 3200 and 4000 meters above sea level in elevation. Four major occupational periods are distinguished: Early Horizon, Early Intermediate Period/Middle Horizon, Late Intermediate Period, and Late Horizon; subsequent investigations in the same region by the Upper Mantaro Research Project (UMARP), directed by Timothy K. Earle (University of California at Los Angeles), refined the LIP chronology into early and late phases, and this new phasing has been applied to most LIP sites in the original JASP survey. The site descriptions include 24 sites in the bordering Jisse-Pomacancha Region, and several site plans from the original survey area, subsequently surveyed and mapped by UMARP archaeologists. The archaeological sites are considered within their environmental, ecological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic contexts.

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru: The Wanka region

Based on his study of the nearly vanished aquatic economy of Chimalhuacán in the Valley of Mexico, Parsons describes the surviving vestiges of aquatic insect collection and fishing, and considers their developmental and archaeological implications within a broad context of historical, ethnographic, biological, ecological, and archaeological information from Mexico, North and South America, the Near East, and Africa. Activities, implements, artifacts, and landscapes are richly illustrated, in many cases with the author's own photos and a number of vintage photographs. The study concludes that aquatic resources were fully complementary with agricultural products during prehispanic times in Mesoamerica where a pastoral economy was absent.

The Last Pescadores of Chimalhuacán, Mexico

This monograph presents data from a systematic regional archaeological survey carried out over an area of ca. 600 square kilometers during May through December 1973 by the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. Six principal occupational cycles are identified: (1) a very sparsely settled Formative era (ca. 500 BC-100 AD) (2) substantial growth during the subsequent Classic period (ca. 100-600 AD) (3) settlement contraction dominated by a single major hilltop center during the Epiclassic (ca. 600-900 AD) (4) explosive growth during the Early Postclassic (ca. 900-1100 AD) (5) near depopulation during the Middle Postclassic (ca. 1100-1300 AD) (6) extensive reoccupation during the Late Postclassic into early Colonial times (ca. 1300-1600 AD) Numerous photographs illustrate details of a landscape that has been radically altered by urban sprawl and commercial agriculture since the time of the fieldwork.

The Zumpango Region

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico

Jeffrey R. Parsons

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