caa a22 4500 388057998 CHVBK 20180307125112.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956536100002029 doi S0956536100002029 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956536100002029 Multiethnicity or Multiple Enigma [Elektronische Daten] Archaeological survey and cave exploration in the Río Talgua drainage, Honduras During the summer of 1995, an intensive archaeological survey of the Río Talgua drainage in eastern Honduras was conducted after the discovery of the Talgua Cave in the Department of Olancho. One important goal of this survey was the identification of the indigenous population responsible for depositing the ninth-century b.c. human burials found upstream in Talgua Cave. In addition to this survey, four other caves were found and/or explored during this season, and limited excavations were also conducted at the mounded site of Talgua downstream and at the ceramic-production site of Chichicaste in the mountains to the west. Preliminary analysis of the architecture and ceramics from 39 newly identified archaeological sites in the Talgua Valley suggests that all appear to date to the Late Classic period (a.d. 600-900), leaving the location of the Middle Formative period population unresolved. A review of the survey, cave, and ceramic data, however, does reveal possible information about the multiethnic nature of the regional political system and local social structure that existed in this previously unstudied area of Central America. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Dixon Boyd International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., 949 McCully Street, Suite 5, Honolulu, HI 96826, USA Hasemann George Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Villa Roy, Bo. Buenos Aires, Apartado 1518, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America Gomez Pastor Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Villa Roy, Bo. Buenos Aires, Apartado 1518, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America Brady James Department of Anthropology, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA Beaudry-Corbett Marilyn Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles, Box 951510, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510, USA Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/2(1998), 327-340 0956-5361 9:2<327 1998 9 ATM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100002029 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100002029 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dixon Boyd International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., 949 McCully Street, Suite 5, Honolulu, HI 96826, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hasemann George Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Villa Roy, Bo. Buenos Aires, Apartado 1518, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gomez Pastor Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Villa Roy, Bo. Buenos Aires, Apartado 1518, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brady James Department of Anthropology, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beaudry-Corbett Marilyn Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles, Box 951510, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/2(1998), 327-340 0956-5361 9:2<327 1998 9 ATM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge