Pottery types and their sequence in El Salvador (1927)
Lothrope, Samuel Kirkland, 1892-, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 14
170 POTTERY TYPES take him to a deep cut on the railroad above the Rio Acelhuate (fig. 1) where potsherds could be seen in the underlying humus and pertinent geological strata could be observed. GEOLOGICAL DATA The general construction of the land for many miles around the city of San Salvador is… … Fig. 2. — Typical section near San Salvador vegetal matter, which, by its very nature, attests that no great ash fall has taken place for centuries. Below are many layers of white volcanic ash (b), piled up to a depth exceeding forty feet at the spot shown in fig. 1. That the many eruptions which…
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