Joseph B Mountjoy
Biographic Data
| ID | 85437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph B Mountjoy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph B |
| FAMILY NAME | Mountjoy |
| SIGNATURE | MOUNTJOY J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6039-8661 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Restos óseos de guajolote norteño Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus, 1758, del sitio arqueológico Arroyo Piedras Azules, occidente de México
Se presenta el hallazgo de huesos del guajolote norteño, Meleagris gallopavo, en un sitio arqueológico del occidente de México. El ave se encontró en un contexto de Preclásico Temprano (1215 +/- 30) de la cultura Aztatlán. El ave no es nativa del sitio. Se discute la importancia de la especie como alimento y en el intercambio comercial
Cuentas de hueso de ave en un depósito arqueológico del Posclásico Temprano (1215 EC) del occidente de México
We describe and comment upon bird bone beads found at the Arroyo Piedras Azules archaeological site (1215 ± 30 AD), located on the northern coast of Jalisco in central Mexico. The two tubular fragments correspond to the ulna. The bones are probably beads that were part of a necklace or bracelet for ornamental use
The Production and Use of Prehispanic Metal Artifacts in the Central Coastal Area of Jalisco, Mexico
This chapter provides the information regarding the production and use of prehistoric metal artifacts in the central coastal area of Jalisco, Mexico is derived from three seasons of archaeological fieldwork in the Tomatlan river basin and laboratory analysis which has been conducted subsequent to the field investigations. It describes the metal artifacts which were found in association with deposits of the Aztatlan and Nahuapa phases. Excavations…
On the Record About Walt Taylor: A Personal Account
Walter W. Taylor, especially through his 1948 monograph A Study of Archeology, has been a major influence on the theory and methods of American archaeology. His contribution has recently been assessed in a book by a number of students and colleagues, but none of them had first-hand experience with Walt in a fieldwork setting. This is an account of personal experiences with Walt Taylor, beginning in the graduate program at Southern Illinois Univer…
Es Complicado: 1.260 Años De Tumbas De Tiro Y Cámara en El Noroeste De Jalisco, México
Se han encontrado tumbas prehispánicas de tipo tiro y cámara en muchos países de América Latina, sobre todo a lo largo del litoral Pacífico. En el Occidente de México las primeras interpretaciones de estas tumbas, los entierros y las ofrendas asociadas son de poca confianza dado el uso de información principalmente de saqueadores, inspección de tumbas ya saqueadas y estudios de ofrendas removidas de su contexto original. Afortunadamente, excavaci…
Iron Pyrite Ornaments from Middle Formative Contexts in the Mascota Valley of Jalisco, Mexico: Description, Mesoamerican Relationships, and Probable Symbolic Significance
Understanding the Wrapped Bundle Burials of West Mexico: A Contextual Analysis of Middle Formative Mortuary Practices
This article reports on the discovery of an unusual type of secondary burial found at two Middle Formative sites in the Mascota valley of Jalisco, West Mexico. We examine these burials within a Middle and Late Formative period context as well as a broader temporal context of funerary customs and mortuary programs involving secondary-type burials. Tightly wrapped, elaborately processed bundled burials were recovered at the cemeteries of El Embocad…
Burial Practices During the Late Formative/Early Classic in the Banderas Valley Area of Coastal West Mexico
In this article we report on the results of our attempts to locate and study shaft-and-chamber tombs in the Municipality of Puerto Vallarta on the southern (Jalisco) side of the Banderas Valley of coastal West Mexico and to place these tombs in the broader context of burial practices in this area during a time corresponding to the Late Preclassic and Early Classic of Mesoamerica. We located and studied nine sites where shaft-and-chamber tombs had…
Anthropomorphic Peg-Based Sculptures From the Banderas Valley of Coastal West Mexico
Both the accidental as well as the purposeful discovery of a large number of anthropomorphic peg-based sculptures in the Banderas Valley in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit during the 1990s have provided a corpus of contextual and iconographic data that, along with conquest-period ethnographic data, allow for an assessment of the date and function of such figures. In addition, because of the similarity of these sculptural figures to ones of comp…
West Mexican Stelae from Jalisco and Nayarit
The process of Mesoamerican cultural expansion into western and northwestern Mexico has been a subject of speculation and investigation for over three centuries. Although many cultural traits have been “implicated” in this process, the practice of erecting stelae has not been one of them. Fieldwork by the author in Jalisco and Nayarit over the past 14 years has resulted in the discovery of 48 stone monuments which are proposed to be rustic versio…
The Early Olmec Horizon at Mirador, Chiapas, Mexico
Antiquity, Interpretation, and Stylistic Evolution of Petroglyphs in West Mexico
New data from two sites in the municipality of San Blas, Nayarit, indicate that the practice of pecking petroglyphs in West Mexico is older than it has been possible to establish in previous studies. Petroglyphs at the La Coba site appear firmly dated to the Los Cocos phase (A.D. 200-600), and petroglyphs at the El Conchal site seem attributable to the Early Ixtlan phase (300 B.C.-A.D. 200) occupation. Hypotheses are offered regarding stylistic e…
An Interpretation of the Pictographs at La Peña Pintada, Jalisco, Mexico
A recently discovered sheltered rock scar covered with red pictographs, in Jalisco, west Mexico, is a major addition to the rather meager data on pictographs in Mesoamerica. It appears to contain a complex set of data pertaining to the cosmology of the relatively unknown Indians who inhabited the Jalisco coast during the last Pre-Hispanic period. Analysis of the scar has incorporated both the artistic symbolism of the nearby Huichol Indians, and …
Studies of Pre-Hispanic New World Cultures
These books exemplify three different approaches to the study of indigenous New World culture: the first stresses archaeology, the second a combination of archaeology and history, and the third relies almost wholly on historical European contact period documents. Besides these differences in method there are contrasts in style and quality of scholarship
Archaeology: The Mochica: A Culture of Peru . Elizabeth P. Benson
Archeology: Proyecto Cholula. I. Marquina
A Dated Cruciform Artifact
Excavations at a site on the outskirts of San Bias, on the south-central coast of Nayarit, Mexico (1967–8) yielded an obsidian cruciform artifact in stratigraphic context, associated with artifacts of the locally defined San Bias complex. Radiocarbon analysis of marine shell samples collected above, below, and two meters to the north of the obsidian cruciform, has produced raw determinations of 2675±80, 2640±85, and 2605±80 radiocarbon years resp…
Burial Practices During the Late Formative/Early Classic in the Banderas Valley Area of Coastal West Mexico
In this article we report on the results of our attempts to locate and study shaft-and-chamber tombs in the Municipality of Puerto Vallarta on the southern (Jalisco) side of the Banderas Valley of coastal West Mexico and to place these tombs in the broader context of burial practices in this area during a time corresponding to the Late Preclassic and Early Classic of Mesoamerica. We located and studied nine sites where shaft-and-chamber tombs had…
Es Complicado: 1.260 Años De Tumbas De Tiro Y Cámara en El Noroeste De Jalisco, México
Se han encontrado tumbas prehispánicas de tipo tiro y cámara en muchos países de América Latina, sobre todo a lo largo del litoral Pacífico. En el Occidente de México las primeras interpretaciones de estas tumbas, los entierros y las ofrendas asociadas son de poca confianza dado el uso de información principalmente de saqueadores, inspección de tumbas ya saqueadas y estudios de ofrendas removidas de su contexto original. Afortunadamente, excavaci…
Understanding the Wrapped Bundle Burials of West Mexico: A Contextual Analysis of Middle Formative Mortuary Practices
This article reports on the discovery of an unusual type of secondary burial found at two Middle Formative sites in the Mascota valley of Jalisco, West Mexico. We examine these burials within a Middle and Late Formative period context as well as a broader temporal context of funerary customs and mortuary programs involving secondary-type burials. Tightly wrapped, elaborately processed bundled burials were recovered at the cemeteries of El Embocad…
Antiquity, Interpretation, and Stylistic Evolution of Petroglyphs in West Mexico
New data from two sites in the municipality of San Blas, Nayarit, indicate that the practice of pecking petroglyphs in West Mexico is older than it has been possible to establish in previous studies. Petroglyphs at the La Coba site appear firmly dated to the Los Cocos phase (A.D. 200-600), and petroglyphs at the El Conchal site seem attributable to the Early Ixtlan phase (300 B.C.-A.D. 200) occupation. Hypotheses are offered regarding stylistic e…
West Mexican Stelae from Jalisco and Nayarit
The process of Mesoamerican cultural expansion into western and northwestern Mexico has been a subject of speculation and investigation for over three centuries. Although many cultural traits have been “implicated” in this process, the practice of erecting stelae has not been one of them. Fieldwork by the author in Jalisco and Nayarit over the past 14 years has resulted in the discovery of 48 stone monuments which are proposed to be rustic versio…
An Interpretation of the Pictographs at La Peña Pintada, Jalisco, Mexico
A recently discovered sheltered rock scar covered with red pictographs, in Jalisco, west Mexico, is a major addition to the rather meager data on pictographs in Mesoamerica. It appears to contain a complex set of data pertaining to the cosmology of the relatively unknown Indians who inhabited the Jalisco coast during the last Pre-Hispanic period. Analysis of the scar has incorporated both the artistic symbolism of the nearby Huichol Indians, and …
A Dated Cruciform Artifact
Excavations at a site on the outskirts of San Bias, on the south-central coast of Nayarit, Mexico (1967–8) yielded an obsidian cruciform artifact in stratigraphic context, associated with artifacts of the locally defined San Bias complex. Radiocarbon analysis of marine shell samples collected above, below, and two meters to the north of the obsidian cruciform, has produced raw determinations of 2675±80, 2640±85, and 2605±80 radiocarbon years resp…
Archeology: Proyecto Cholula. I. Marquina
Archaeology: The Mochica: A Culture of Peru . Elizabeth P. Benson
Studies of Pre-Hispanic New World Cultures
These books exemplify three different approaches to the study of indigenous New World culture: the first stresses archaeology, the second a combination of archaeology and history, and the third relies almost wholly on historical European contact period documents. Besides these differences in method there are contrasts in style and quality of scholarship
An Interpretation of the Pictographs at La Peña Pintada, Jalisco, Mexico
A recently discovered sheltered rock scar covered with red pictographs, in Jalisco, west Mexico, is a major addition to the rather meager data on pictographs in Mesoamerica. It appears to contain a complex set of data pertaining to the cosmology of the relatively unknown Indians who inhabited the Jalisco coast during the last Pre-Hispanic period. Analysis of the scar has incorporated both the artistic symbolism of the nearby Huichol Indians, and …
The Early Olmec Horizon at Mirador, Chiapas, Mexico
Antiquity, Interpretation, and Stylistic Evolution of Petroglyphs in West Mexico
New data from two sites in the municipality of San Blas, Nayarit, indicate that the practice of pecking petroglyphs in West Mexico is older than it has been possible to establish in previous studies. Petroglyphs at the La Coba site appear firmly dated to the Los Cocos phase (A.D. 200-600), and petroglyphs at the El Conchal site seem attributable to the Early Ixtlan phase (300 B.C.-A.D. 200) occupation. Hypotheses are offered regarding stylistic e…
West Mexican Stelae from Jalisco and Nayarit
The process of Mesoamerican cultural expansion into western and northwestern Mexico has been a subject of speculation and investigation for over three centuries. Although many cultural traits have been “implicated” in this process, the practice of erecting stelae has not been one of them. Fieldwork by the author in Jalisco and Nayarit over the past 14 years has resulted in the discovery of 48 stone monuments which are proposed to be rustic versio…
Anthropomorphic Peg-Based Sculptures From the Banderas Valley of Coastal West Mexico
Both the accidental as well as the purposeful discovery of a large number of anthropomorphic peg-based sculptures in the Banderas Valley in the states of Jalisco and Nayarit during the 1990s have provided a corpus of contextual and iconographic data that, along with conquest-period ethnographic data, allow for an assessment of the date and function of such figures. In addition, because of the similarity of these sculptural figures to ones of comp…
Burial Practices During the Late Formative/Early Classic in the Banderas Valley Area of Coastal West Mexico
In this article we report on the results of our attempts to locate and study shaft-and-chamber tombs in the Municipality of Puerto Vallarta on the southern (Jalisco) side of the Banderas Valley of coastal West Mexico and to place these tombs in the broader context of burial practices in this area during a time corresponding to the Late Preclassic and Early Classic of Mesoamerica. We located and studied nine sites where shaft-and-chamber tombs had…
Iron Pyrite Ornaments from Middle Formative Contexts in the Mascota Valley of Jalisco, Mexico: Description, Mesoamerican Relationships, and Probable Symbolic Significance
Understanding the Wrapped Bundle Burials of West Mexico: A Contextual Analysis of Middle Formative Mortuary Practices
This article reports on the discovery of an unusual type of secondary burial found at two Middle Formative sites in the Mascota valley of Jalisco, West Mexico. We examine these burials within a Middle and Late Formative period context as well as a broader temporal context of funerary customs and mortuary programs involving secondary-type burials. Tightly wrapped, elaborately processed bundled burials were recovered at the cemeteries of El Embocad…
On the Record About Walt Taylor: A Personal Account
Walter W. Taylor, especially through his 1948 monograph A Study of Archeology, has been a major influence on the theory and methods of American archaeology. His contribution has recently been assessed in a book by a number of students and colleagues, but none of them had first-hand experience with Walt in a fieldwork setting. This is an account of personal experiences with Walt Taylor, beginning in the graduate program at Southern Illinois Univer…
Es Complicado: 1.260 Años De Tumbas De Tiro Y Cámara en El Noroeste De Jalisco, México
Se han encontrado tumbas prehispánicas de tipo tiro y cámara en muchos países de América Latina, sobre todo a lo largo del litoral Pacífico. En el Occidente de México las primeras interpretaciones de estas tumbas, los entierros y las ofrendas asociadas son de poca confianza dado el uso de información principalmente de saqueadores, inspección de tumbas ya saqueadas y estudios de ofrendas removidas de su contexto original. Afortunadamente, excavaci…
The Production and Use of Prehispanic Metal Artifacts in the Central Coastal Area of Jalisco, Mexico
This chapter provides the information regarding the production and use of prehistoric metal artifacts in the central coastal area of Jalisco, Mexico is derived from three seasons of archaeological fieldwork in the Tomatlan river basin and laboratory analysis which has been conducted subsequent to the field investigations. It describes the metal artifacts which were found in association with deposits of the Aztatlan and Nahuapa phases. Excavations…
Cuentas de hueso de ave en un depósito arqueológico del Posclásico Temprano (1215 EC) del occidente de México
We describe and comment upon bird bone beads found at the Arroyo Piedras Azules archaeological site (1215 ± 30 AD), located on the northern coast of Jalisco in central Mexico. The two tubular fragments correspond to the ulna. The bones are probably beads that were part of a necklace or bracelet for ornamental use
Restos óseos de guajolote norteño Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus, 1758, del sitio arqueológico Arroyo Piedras Azules, occidente de México
Se presenta el hallazgo de huesos del guajolote norteño, Meleagris gallopavo, en un sitio arqueológico del occidente de México. El ave se encontró en un contexto de Preclásico Temprano (1215 +/- 30) de la cultura Aztatlán. El ave no es nativa del sitio. Se discute la importancia de la especie como alimento y en el intercambio comercial
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