Puerto Marqués

[1] During these times, most people were hunters and foragers, setting up camps and continuously migrating based on the seasons.

Puerto Marqués is located just south of present day Acapulco, in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

[3] Puerto Marqués is at the south end of a deep semi-circular (semi-enclosed) bay, and has a developing economy with buildings such as high rise hotels increasing in number.

But in the Archaic period to which the pottery found at Perto Marqués was dated, the role of foragers and hunters was more prominent than the sedentary life, as agricultural developments were yet to be made and resources were used up from site to site as mobile bands moved around the countryside.

[7] The pottery found at Puerto Marqués serves as a way to relate and understand the makers' social structures, and socio-economic status within the context of their lives long ago.