An Archaic Mexican Shellmound and Its Entombed Floors

Tlacuachero is the site of a shellmound insouthwest Mexico. Presents investigations of several floors within the site's shell deposits formed over a 600-800 year interval during the Archaic period (ca. 8000-2000 BCE), a crucial timespan in Mesoamerican prehistory when people were transitioning to the use of domesticated crops.