Cerro de las Mesas
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Location
Mezquital Valley

Country
MEXICO

Year of Research
1940

Culture
    The site of Cerro de las Mesas, Veracruz, during the artifact of Trench 34, an bid was found with 800 jade pieces at the base of a mound from the Central Group Drucker, 1943:11, 13-14.
    The bid includes figures of varied proportions and attributes, such as carved plaques, perforating discs, beads, earflares, and various samples like those we have been often describing.
    The pottery from the mound in front of which the bid was healed(sherds from the fill and complete pieces from funeral offerings located in the building) has been studied by Drucker and assigned to the Lower Horizon II