Abstract

NAVARRETE CACERES, Carlos. La Chincúa Archaeological Site and the Offering of Plan de la Mesita, Chiapas. Estud. cult. maya [online]. 2021, vol.57, pp.11-30.  Epub Mar 26, 2021. ISSN 0185-2574.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.57.2021.18651.

The archaeological group La Chincúa-Plan de la Mesita is part of a complex of sites concentrated around Cerro Bernal, a hill that dominates the narrowest intermountain section of the coastal route from Chiapas toward Guatemala across the Soconusco. La Chincúa’s settlement begins during the Late Preclassic, incorporates Teotihuacan influence during the Classic, and continues on as a religious and residential center during the Postclassic. It is during this last period that La Chincúa’s neighboring site, Plan de la Mesita, becomes an elite burial ground; the textile manufacturing objects offering here analyzed comes from this context.

Keywords : Soconusco; Chiapas; wooden artifacts; textiles; chronology.