Chiquirines

Chiquirines
Chiquirines
Coordinates: 14°33′57″N 92°03′18″W / 14.56583°N 92.055°W / 14.56583; -92.055
Country	Guatemala
Department	Retalhuleu Department

Chiquirines is an ancient Pre-Columbian archaeological site, located in the modern day Retalhuleu Department, Guatemala. It is located near the major Preclassic Period site of Ujuxte and is considered to be a satellite of that city and contemporary with it.^[1] Chiquirines features a smaller copy of a complex at Ujuxte, consisting of seven mounds arranged around a central plaza upon a basal platform.^[2] The largest of these mounds had a stairway ascending the west side.^[3] Broken fragments of sculpture have been found at Chiquirines.^[4]

Chiquirines was discovered during a regional survey undertaken during the 1993–1994 field seasons at Ujuxte.^[5] The site is situated 5.3 kilometres (3.3 mi) to the northwest of Ujuxte.^[6] Archaeologist Michael Love has mapped more than 40 mounds at Chiquirines.^[7] Ceramic finds at Chiquirines date to the same period as those at Ujuxte and confirm that the two sites were contemporary.^[8]

Chiquirines is the pluralised Spanish name, of Nahuatl origin, of the cicada species Odopoea imbellis.^[9]

Notes

1. ^ Love 1999, p.141. Poe n.d. A, p.8.
2. ^ Love 1999, p.141. Poe n.d. C.
3. ^ Love 1999, p.141.
4. ^ Love 1999, p.142.
5. ^ Poe n.d. B.
6. ^ Poe n.d. A, p.8.
7. ^ Poe n.d. A, p.2.
8. ^ Poe n.d. D.
9. ^ Hernández 2008, p.77.

References

Hernández, Esther (2008). "Indigenismos en el Vocabulario de la Lengua Cakchiquel Atribuido a Fray Domingo de Vico, MS. BNF R. 7507" (PDF). Revista de Filología Española LXXXVIII (1): 67–88. ISSN 0210-9174. http://revistadefilologiaespañola.revistas.csic.es/index.php/rfe/article/view/45/44. Retrieved 2010-09-12.  (Spanish)

Love, Michael (1999). "Ideology, Material Culture, and Daily Practice in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica: A Pacific Coast Perspective". In David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce (eds.). Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica. pp. 127–154. ISBN 0-88402-252-8. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vFSK3hbRbM8C&pg=PA141&dq=,+Chiquirines&hl=en&ei=ZfaHTOuLLIPKswb9u8XXCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%2C%20Chiquirines&f=false. 

Poe, William Clay (n.d. A). "GPS mapping at the prehistoric site of Ujuxte, Guatemala: January 1997 field season" (PDF). The Mesoamerican Archaeology Field School, Sonoma State University. http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/poe/excursus/ujuxte.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-11. 

Poe, William Clay (n.d. B). "History of Archaeological Research at Ujuxte". Sonoma State University. http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/poe/ujuxte/Arch_res.html. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 

Poe, William Clay (n.d. C). "Research Design and Methodology of GPS Mapping at Ujuxte". Sonoma State University. http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/poe/ujuxte/GPS_Meth.html. Retrieved 2010-09-12. 

Poe, William Clay (n.d. D). "Evidence for the Dependency of Cuatunco/Los Enquentros and Chiquirines". Sonoma State University. http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/poe/ujuxte/Depend.html. Retrieved 2010-09-12.