Digital Object 2301
Description:
UE252A, 252B, 252C. Offering placed on a platform of vegetation, which served as a cover for tomb T7, once the collective burial UE300 had been carried out. It was partly supported by the medial staggering of the northeast and northwest walls of the main pit (UE277), and partly by the upper ends of the perimeter reinforcement posts of the funerary structure. As a result, the cover of vegetation was situated about 0.95 m above the surface of offering UE300. It completely covered the surface of the excavated area, in such a way that both the contour of the platform like that of offering UE252 were adapted in a quite precise way to that of the upper part of the tomb.
It is made up of, among other elements, a total of 432 pieces of ceramics, most of them polychrome. Many of them were fractured by compression, although they retained their original geometry as they were buried under a thick layer of sediment before the platform of vegetation on which they rested collapsed. Vessels of very diverse types were recovered: globular, carinated, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, incense burners, trays, bowls, jars, plates, carafes etc. Various stone artifacts were also identified, such as polished axes, carved arrowheads, and rounded stones with marks of use. The most interesting lithic object of the offering is a three-footed metate next to the northwestern flank of the tomb (LI 11835).
It was mostly uncovered during the 2014 campaign. In the 2015 campaign, the exhumation of its entire surface was completed by removing the lower part of strata 265 and 270, which still concealed its lower third, and its description and complete documentation were carried out, as well as its subsequent extraction.
It has been dated to around 920 and 965 AD [Cal dC 770 to 905 (Cal AP 1180 to 1045) / Cal dC 920 to 965 (Cal AP 1030 to 985)] based on radiocarbon analysis of a sample of charcoal (MU 062).
It is divided into three sub-UEs:- Sub-UE 252A: in situ offering, considered as a constructive act. Strictly speaking, it did not exist as such at the time of the archaeological excavation; - sub-UE 252B: moment of breakage of the platform and collapse of the offering as a whole, considered as a surface in itself or negative stratigraphic unit of the destruction type;
- Sub-UE 252C: collapse of offering 252, considered as a positive stratigraphic unit of the deposit type, and resulting from the previous destruction of the offering by collapse.
Below UE270. Above UE283. Fill of UE277.
It is made up of, among other elements, a total of 432 pieces of ceramics, most of them polychrome. Many of them were fractured by compression, although they retained their original geometry as they were buried under a thick layer of sediment before the platform of vegetation on which they rested collapsed. Vessels of very diverse types were recovered: globular, carinated, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, incense burners, trays, bowls, jars, plates, carafes etc. Various stone artifacts were also identified, such as polished axes, carved arrowheads, and rounded stones with marks of use. The most interesting lithic object of the offering is a three-footed metate next to the northwestern flank of the tomb (LI 11835).
It was mostly uncovered during the 2014 campaign. In the 2015 campaign, the exhumation of its entire surface was completed by removing the lower part of strata 265 and 270, which still concealed its lower third, and its description and complete documentation were carried out, as well as its subsequent extraction.
It has been dated to around 920 and 965 AD [Cal dC 770 to 905 (Cal AP 1180 to 1045) / Cal dC 920 to 965 (Cal AP 1030 to 985)] based on radiocarbon analysis of a sample of charcoal (MU 062).
It is divided into three sub-UEs:- Sub-UE 252A: in situ offering, considered as a constructive act. Strictly speaking, it did not exist as such at the time of the archaeological excavation; - sub-UE 252B: moment of breakage of the platform and collapse of the offering as a whole, considered as a surface in itself or negative stratigraphic unit of the destruction type;
- Sub-UE 252C: collapse of offering 252, considered as a positive stratigraphic unit of the deposit type, and resulting from the previous destruction of the offering by collapse.
Below UE270. Above UE283. Fill of UE277.
Excavation campaign:
2015
Record type:
Stratigraphic unit register
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Archaeological site:
El Caño
Operation:
Operation 1
Stratigraphic group:
Tomb 7
Stratigraphic unit type:
Landslide
Stratigraphic unit (characteristics):
252A - 252B - 252C
Digital Object 2301