Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana Volumen 76, núm. 2, A230324, 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2024v76n2a230324

Temporalidad y contexto cultural del sitio arqueológico San José de Los Ranchos: un poblado de finales del período clásico al epiclásico en los Altos de Jalisco

Timing and cultural context of the San José de Los Ranchos archeological site: a Late Classic to Epiclassic village in the Jalisco Highlands

Eric Orlando Cach Avendaño^1,*, Carlos Torreblanca Padilla², Juan Gerardo Rivera Belmontes²,

Avto Goguitchaichvili³, Juan Julio Morales Contreras³

¹ Centro Universitario de los Lagos, Universidad de Guadalajara. Enrique Díaz de León 1144, Paseos de La Montaña, C.P. 47463, Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, México.

² Centro INAH Zacatecas. Miguel Auza, Zacatecas Centro, C.P. 98000 Zacatecas, Zacatecas, México.

³ Servicio Arqueomagnético Nacional, UNAM, Campus Morelia. Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701, Col. Ex-Hacienda de San José de la Huerta, C.P. 58190, Morelia, Michoacán, México.

* Autor para correspondencia: (E.O. Cach Avendaño) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Cómo citar este artículo:

Cach-Avendaño, E.O., Torreblanca-Padilla, C., Rivera-Belmontes, J.G., Goguitchaichvili, A., Morales-Contreras, J.J., 2024, Temporalidad y contexto cultural del sitio arqueológico San José de Los Ranchos: un poblado de finales del período clásico al epiclásico en los Altos de Jalisco: Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 76 (2), A230324. http://dx.doi.org/10.18268/BSGM2024v76n2a230324

Manuscrito recibido: 20 de Octubre de 2023; Manuscrito corregido: 2 de Marzo de 2024; Manuscrito aceptado: 20 de Marzo de 2024.

ABSTRACT

In this paper, a new estimate of the Epiclassic chronological interval (6th to 9th centuries) is proposed for the archaeological site of San José de Los Ranchos, located in Los Altos de Jalisco, near the city of Lagos de Moreno. This site is part of the cultural space of the western Mexico. The date was obtained through an archaeomagnetic analysis of ceramic materials from a cist-type tomb found at old hacienda located in the foothills of the Sierra Alta, next to the valley of the Lagos River. This archaeological site is a settlement of farmers, possibly linked to neighboring sites such as El Cerrito in the town of El Cuarenta; Los Cerritos in Lagos de Moreno and El Cóporo in the neighboring state of Guanajuato. The materials recovered in the tomb, consisting of pottery, shell beads and miniature zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figurines. The new periodization allows us to date the beginning of the Mesoamerican occupation of the Lagos River valley from the 6th century, in addition to dates obtained by previous investigations. In this way, it can be established that the villages in the valley date from the end of the Mesoamerican classic period, with its peak in the epiclassic era and possibly concluding at the beginning of the postclassic period.

Keywords: Mesoamerica, Western Mexico, Archaeointensity, Altos de Jalisco, Epiclassic, Pottery.