Program

Research Programs: Archaeology Projects

Period of Performance

5/1/1994 - 10/31/1998

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$108,183.00 (approved)
$44,981.00 (awarded)


Emergence of the Tarascan State: Excavations at Urichu

FAIN: RK-20087-94

Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI 48824-3407)
Helen P. Pollard (Project Director: October 1993 to June 1999)

To support three years of excavations and analysis at Urichu, capital of the Tarascan state in Michoacan, Mexico, focusing on the role of the elites in the rise of the state during the Postclassic period, A.D. 900-1520.