ABSTRACT
Recognition of the Chupicuaro archaeological zone was first made in publication in the latter half of the 1920s. Coincidental with the 1945 excavations at Chupicuaro was continuing construction of the Solis Dam, completion of which would create, and since has done so, a reservoir inundating the Chupicuaro vicinity. The investigation that was carried out in the Chupicuaro archaeological zone in 1945 is, in many respects, the most balanced one in terms of the work accomplished and the subsequent reporting of that work. Porter argues that choker figurines are late at Chupicuaro based upon associations with a prognathic type, seen as an early Teotihuacan type; and four trade figurines, two of which have headdresses thought to be of Teotihuacan II-III date. In order to assign sites to the general Chupicuaro ceramic tradition, a few of the highly diagnostic elements of that tradition have been selected.
