"EL ARTE DE RAJAR PIEDRA", ORGANIZACIÓN Y AUTOGESTIÓN EN LA TALLA LÍTICA DEL SÍLEX DE LOS LACANDONES EN CHIAPAS, MÉXICO

Abstract

The following work is based upon ethnographic data from a group of flintknappers, inhabitants of the Mexican – Lacandon jungle located in the State of Chiapas. The Lacandons, as direct inheritors of the Mayan Tradition, have maintained and also continued skilled of lithic. The information provided mainly aim to describe the chain of processes taken by the group in elaborating arrowheads (extraction, organization, managing and transformation processes of raw materials). The results obtained from the ethnographic work will lead to a current perspective about the indigenous group related to its tradition on lithic flint carving which will affect technological issues in the present outlook of lytic studies.