TEOTIHUACAN MOON PYRAMID DATASET

The Teotihuacan Moon Pyramid Osbidian Dataset complements the book Osidian and the Teotihuacan State: Weaponry and Ritual Production at the Moon Pyramid by David M. Carballo (available from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Comparative Archaeology). It consists of detailed counts of obsidian artifacts from three excavated deposits at the Moon Pyramid, Teotihuacan, which are discussed in full in the printed volume, whose contents are as follows:

Chapter 1: Crafting State Political Authority
Chapter 2: Teotihuacan and the Obsidian Industries of Prehispanic Central Mexico
Chapter 3: The Excavation of Obsidian Workshop Deposits at the Moon Pyramid (with Rodrigo Néstor Paredes Cetino)
Chapter 4: Developing the Analytical Framework through Lithic Replication
Chapter 5: Technological Analysis of the Moon Pyramid Deposits
Chapter 6: Contextual Analysis of the Moon Pyramid Deposits
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Appendix A: A Compositional Provenance Study of the Moon Pyramid Obsidian Deposits Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
Appendix B: Key of Lithic Terminology

Questions or comments about this dataset or the Comparative Archaeology Database can be directed to cadb@pitt.edu via email.

Carballo, David M. (2011a) Osidian and the Teotihuacan State: Weaponry and Ritual Production at the Moon Pyramid. University of Pittsburgh Memoirs in Latin American Archaeology, No. 21.

Carballo, David M. (2011b) Teotihuacan Moon Pyramid Osbidian Dataset. Comparative Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh. URL: <http://www.cadb.pitt.edu>.

CONTENTS OF THE DATASET

This dataset contains two kinds of numeric data from three deposits excavated next to the Moon Pyramid. There are (1) cross tabulations of the different lithic techonological types by the different source materials for all three deposits, and (2) there is more detailed data on the measurements of preforms from Deposits 1 and 2.

Cross Tabulation Data

Data on Preforms

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