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A Coordinate Approach to Northern Maya Prehistory: A.D. 700-1200

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joseph W. Ball
Joseph W. Ball*
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Department of Anthropology,University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Abstract

Despite almost 100 yr of research on the Yucatan peninsula, including several major archaeological and ethnohistoric projects, an organized synthesis of the pre-Late Postclassic culture history of this region has yet to appear. In the present paper, a trial coordination of the accumulated archaeological and ethnohistoric materials dealing with the eighth through twelfth centuries A.D. is presented, and a culture historic framework for this period is suggested.

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American Antiquity , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 85 - 93
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1974

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