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Cerro Juanaqueña (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 30 55 26 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 30.9248 decimal degrees |
| Long: 108 07 33 W degrees minutes |
Long: -108.1260 decimal degrees |
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Elevation: |
| 459.317 feet |
140.0000 meters |
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Note: Was massive, terraced village in the Late Archaic (1500 BCE-300 CE) era, located on a hill, now on Rio Casas Grandes. It contains artificial, semicircular rock-lined earthen terraces called trincheras; noted as earliest agricultural site of this scale in region, developed long before introduction of maize & squash; crops apparently included amaranth ("pig weed"). |
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| Cerro Juanaqueña (preferred,C,V,S)
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| Cerro Juanaquena (C,O)
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| Juanaquena (C,V)
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| Juanaqueña (C,V)
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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inhabited by 3000 before present, probably had only limited habitation by 1500 before present |
| archaeological site (C) |
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test excavations were made in 1997 |
| inhabited place (H) |
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| Pre-Columbian (H) |
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| hill settlement (H) |
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| farm (H) |
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