Proyecto Arqueológico Río Pesquero

Carl J. Wendt, Director

Cut riverbank at Arroyo Chinin-1Proyecto Arqueológico Río Pesquero was initiated in the summer of 2005 (funded by the Heinz Latin American Archaeology Grant Program) and is aimed at investigating the largely unknown south-eastern Olmec zone. The 2005 research was the first-stage in a multi-stage survey and excavation research project with a long-term of collecting data that will provide for inferences on the development and organization of the region’s Middle Formative period (ca. 900-500 B.C.) political, economic, and social systems.

Collecting archaeological materials at Los Soldados On the Río Pesquero

Rancho El Limón Mound 1 at El Tigre Low mound at Los Soldados

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