Before the Volcano Erupted: The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America (Campus Confessions)

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On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Cerén village within the Zapotitán Valley of what’s now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their the town to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the extraordinarily preserved the town in 1976. Probably the most intact Precolumbian village in Latin The us, Cerén has been known as the “Pompeii of the New World.”

This book and its accompanying CD-ROM and web page (ceren.colorado.edu) present complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Cerén since 1978 by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, ethnographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, botanists, conservators, and others. The book is divided into sections that debate the physical environment and resources, household structures and economy, special buildings and their uses, artifact analysis, and topical and theoretical issues.

As the authors present and analyze Cerén’s houses and their goods, workshops, civic and spiritual buildings, kitchen gardens, planted fields, and garbage dumps, a new and much clearer picture of how commoners lived all over the Maya Classic Period emerges. These findings constitute landmark contributions to the anthropology and archaeology of Central The us.

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