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REVISITING SUN PYRAMID CERAMIC AND RADIOCARBON DATES FROM TEOTIHUACAN: COMMENT ON SLOAD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2018

Nawa Sugiyama*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN: 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Saburo Sugiyama
Affiliation:
Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Aichi Prefectural University, Nagakute, Aichi, 480-1198Japan School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287USA (3sugiyama@gmail.com)
Alejandro Sarabia G.
Affiliation:
National Institute of Anthropology and History, Teotihuacan Archaeological Park, Autopista Ecatepec Pirámides km22+600, Puerta 1, Teotihuacan, México, C.P. 55800 (sarabiaalejandro@hotmail.com)
*
(nsugiyam@gmu.edu, corresponding author)

Abstract

Sload (2015) disregards stratigraphic data from the Sun Pyramid and misinterprets our radiocarbon dates that re-evaluates Teotihuacan ceramic chronology.

Sload (2015) ignora datos estratigráficos de la Pirámide del Sol e interpreta de forma errónea nuestros datos de radiocarbono que reevalúala la cronología cerámica de Teotihuacán.

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Copyright © 2018 by the Society for American Archaeology 

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