El sitio arqueológico de La Chincúa y la ofrenda del Plan de la Mesita, Chiapas

Abstract

The archaeological group La Chincúa-Plan de la Mesita is part of a complex of sites grouped 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 habitation 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.