ABSTRACT
Tabachines (Jalisco, Mexico) This site on the northern outskirts of Guadalajara in the Atemajac Valley is relatively close to El Grillo, and the two may have been related. Construction in the 1970s exposed twenty-one shaft tombs and twenty-seven box tombs; these were salvage excavated by Galvan and Schòndube. The shaft tombs included a wide variety of offerings; Galvan has analyzed the relationship of artifacts to social status, resulting in the definition of the Tabachines phase. Galvan argued that on the basis of quantity of offerings and elaboration of the tombs, there were wealthier and poorer classes, and that this disparity in wealth declined as the neighboring Tequila Valley soci eties began to grow in socio-political complexity. Aronson later studied the production, distribution and use of Tabachines materials and provided a wealth of additional detail. Obsidian hydration dates from the tombs range from 750 B.C. to A.D . 460, and their relative order has allowed a seriation of the tomb lots.
