Cantona: Urban craft and contested chronologies
Cantona (site or historical name, not a self-designation for every ancient or living resident)
Residential compounds, circulation routes, ballcourts and obsidian production reveal a worked urban landscape. Competing chronologies make Cantona a useful case for explaining sampling and context rather than presenting one unquestioned peak date.
Communities, cities, and the evidence
Landscapes and regional connections
The Oriental basin and volcanic terrain connected local building materials and obsidian work with regional exchange.
Political organization and community scale
The synthesis discusses sociopolitical organization and proposed state workshops; these are research interpretations, not a recorded constitution or homogeneous ethnicity.
Colonial transformation, living heritage, and modern reception
Modern research revises phase models. A proposed occupation peak must remain tied to the tested structures and selected samples.
The archaeological synthesis treats residences, storage and circulation as well as civic spaces.
The dating study changes its proposed peak interval after excluding samples of doubtful context.
INAH notes that the proposed Caltonac name lacks evidence of ancient usage.
A concise, sourced timeline
These milestones are orientation points, not a complete history.
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Regional sequence proposed
The synthesis compares Cantona's sequence with surrounding basin settlements.
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Broad sample calculation
The radiocarbon study first calculates this peak interval from its larger sample set, not a universally accepted city chronology.
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Context-filtered calculation
Excluding doubtful contexts narrows the study's proposed interval; this is a model result, not a new historical event.
Households, work, language, and belief
Languages named in this profile
- No secure spoken-language assignment from these registered sources.
Language family: Evidence-specific language context; no uniform assignment
The archaeological synthesis treats residences, storage and circulation as well as civic spaces.
The dating study changes its proposed peak interval after excluding samples of doubtful context.
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Cantona: un bosquejo de su desarrollo cultural
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Estudio de las fechas determinadas para Cantona por el laboratorio del INAH
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Editorial review: October 20, 2026