Chiquirines

Chiquirines
Chiquirines
Coordinates: 14°33′57″N 92°03′18″W / 14.56583°N 92.05500°W
Country  Guatemala
Department Retalhuleu Department

Chiquirines is an ancient Pre-Columbian archaeological site, located in the modern-day Retalhuleu Department, Guatemala. It is located near the major Preclassic Period site of Ujuxte and is considered to be a satellite of that city and contemporary with it.[1] Chiquirines features a smaller copy of a complex at Ujuxte, consisting of seven mounds arranged around a central plaza upon a basal platform.[2] The largest of these mounds had a stairway ascending the west side.[3] Broken fragments of sculpture have been found at Chiquirines.[4]

Chiquirines was discovered during a regional survey undertaken during the 1993–1994 field seasons at Ujuxte.[5] The site is situated 5.3 kilometres (3.3 mi) to the northwest of Ujuxte.[6] Archaeologist Michael Love has mapped more than 40 mounds at Chiquirines.[7] Ceramic finds at Chiquirines date to the same period as those at Ujuxte and confirm that the two sites were contemporary.[8]

Chiquirines is the pluralised Spanish name, of Nahuatl origin, of the cicada species Odopoea imbellis.[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ Love 1999, p.141. Poe n.d. A, p.8.
  2. ↑ Love 1999, p.141. Poe n.d. C.
  3. ↑ Love 1999, p.141.
  4. ↑ Love 1999, p.142.
  5. ↑ Poe n.d. B.
  6. ↑ Poe n.d. A, p.8.
  7. ↑ Poe n.d. A, p.2.
  8. ↑ Poe n.d. D.
  9. ↑ Hernández 2008, p.77.

References

Hernández, Esther (2008). "Indigenismos en el Vocabulario de la Lengua Cakchiquel Atribuido a Fray Domingo de Vico, MS. BNF R. 7507" (PDF). Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish). LXXXVIII (1): 67–88. ISSN 0210-9174. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
Love, Michael (1999). "Ideology, Material Culture, and Daily Practice in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica: A Pacific Coast Perspective". In David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce (eds.). Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica. pp. 127–154. ISBN 0-88402-252-8.
Poe, William Clay (n.d. A). "GPS mapping at the prehistoric site of Ujuxte, Guatemala: January 1997 field season" (PDF). The Mesoamerican Archaeology Field School, Sonoma State University. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
Poe, William Clay (n.d. B). "History of Archaeological Research at Ujuxte". Sonoma State University. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
Poe, William Clay (n.d. C). "Research Design and Methodology of GPS Mapping at Ujuxte". Sonoma State University. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
Poe, William Clay (n.d. D). "Evidence for the Dependency of Cuatunco/Los Enquentros and Chiquirines". Sonoma State University. Retrieved 2010-09-12.