The occupation of the site and the region, is undoubtedly the right conditions present in the area for the development of human life, as the place is located in the foothills of the Sierra Tamaulipas, in an area of low hills that reaching 400 meters above sea level, where the predominant forest vegetation with abundant natural resources and access to land for cultivation. South of the site, in the canyons of the Sierra, the archeologist Richard Mac Neish documented a long sequence of human occupation going from the first inhabitants of the state (more than 12 thousand years ago) to the Mesoamerican tradition groups with similar characteristics to which you can be seen in the Sabinito. The site was inhabited from about 1000 AD, but his occupation went through a series of intermediate periods where it has been determined the transition of inhabitants based on hunting economy and collection to an economy based on agriculture. According to the analysis of archaeological materials like pieces of zoomorphic ceramic bowls and tripods paragraphs basalt grinding stones, recovered during exploration at the site of the Sabinito, you can set a future occupation 900 years old, which developed between 200 and 1100 AD. Site Description The Sabinito is one of many such settlements were established in this area of the foothills of the Sierra de Tamaulipas, but showing striking similarities with Balcony places like Montezuma in the Sierra Madre Oriental.Regarding the dimensions of the bases in the Sabinito, they can reach up to 4 meters high, because the sharp slope of the land required to raise over the wall by one side to reach the level, and thus to integrate architecture the topography. The building system is also different, as all bases, without exception, were built with slabs of limestone of 5-10 centimeters thick, juxtaposed without cementing. This is a tradition that at one point consisted the Mesoamerican world, different from the semi-nomadic group that surrounded and that undoubtedly had contact with huastecos groups further south, and with village groups in the southeastern United States, but with its own identity. After 1100, the site was abandoned, and its inhabitants are likely to return to a semi-nomadic way of life based on hunting, fishing and gathering, and have ceased to occupy sites with high population densities. It is estimated that the Sabinito consists of more than 600 structures, which had more than 1500 people during its heyday.

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