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Science 17 March 1972:
Vol. 175. no. 4027, pp. 1242 - 1243
DOI: 10.1126/science.175.4027.1242
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Matanchén Complex: New Radiocarbon Dates on Early Coastal Adaptation in West Mexico

Joseph B. Mountjoy 1, R. E. Taylor 2, and Lawrence H. Feldman 3

1 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 27412
2 Department of Anthropology and Institute of Geophysics, University of California, Riverside 92502
3 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 17325

Samples of marine shell from archeological context on the coast of Nayarit, Mexico, have given radiocarbon determinations of 1810 ± 80 B.C., 2000 ± 100 B.C., and 2100 ± 100 B.C. Even with maximum correction for upwelling these are the earliest dates for coastal occupation in West Mexico north of Acapulco, Guerrero. Analysis of the midden contents has provided new insights regarding early coastal adaptation.


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