Belize (Geographic Keyword)

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Ancient Mesoamerican mortars, plasters, and stuccos: the composition and origin of sascab (1958)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E R Littmann.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Archaeology by experiment (Japanese translation) (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Morton Coles.

Arqueologia Experimental (translation of ”archaeology by experiment” by TORRINHA, Maria Fernanda) (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Morton Coles.

Basic Mesoamerican stone-working: nodule smashing? (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin W Boksenbaum.

Classic Maya Material Worlds: Using Cultural Models to Transform Archaeological Practice and Interpretation (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2015)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Jackson.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigated how Classic Maya individuals understood the objects that archaeologists characterize as 'artifacts,' and applied this Maya material perspective to modern archaeological practices in order to transform how we interpret excavations at Classic Maya sites. To accomplish this, the project focused on three activities: reconstructing elements of a Classic Maya perspective on the...

The Construction of the Bantu Grass Hut (1975)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Werner E Knuffel.

Das Feuerbohren nach indianischer Weise (1903)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M Schmidt.

Der Ursprung des Mais - eine neue Theorie (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul C Mangelsdorf.

The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context: Case Studies in Residence and Vulnerability (2014)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750), were caused not solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts...

Inside Ancient Kitchens: New Directions in the Study of Daily Meals and Feasts (2010)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

The anthropology of food is an area of research in which economic, social, and political dynamics interact in incredibly complex ways. Using archaeological case studies from around the globe, Inside Ancient Kitchens presents new perspectives on the comparative study of prehistoric meals from Peru to the Philippines. Inside Ancient Kitchens builds upon the last decade of feasting studies and presents two unique goals for broadening the understanding of prehistoric meals. First, the volume focuses...

Introductory Investigations (1945)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Wells Jakeman.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Local Chert Reduction, Maintenance, and Toolmaking: Terminal Classic Chert Use at Nohmul, Belize (dataset)

PROJECT Uploaded by: Adrian Chase

This dataset contains analysis of 381 chert artifacts excavated from structures 9 (circular) and 20 (patio quad) at the site of Nohmul in modern Belize. This material was originally excavated in two field seasons in 1978 and 1979 under the Corozal Postclassic Project by Diane Chase. The analysis of this material by Adrian SZ Chase and Jonathan Paige is published in the 2020 volume of Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology and should use that paper as a reference for this dataset (see abstract...

Man does not go naked: Textilien und Handwerk aus afrikanischen und anderen Ländern; Festschrift für Renée Boser-Sarivaxévanis (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beate Engelbrecht. Bernhard Gardi.

Manufacture of Mesoamerican prismatic blades: an alternative approach (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J E Clark.

Maya Worldviews at Conquest (2009)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

Maya Worldviews at Conquest examines Maya culture and social life just prior to contact and the effect the subsequent Spanish conquest, as well as contact with other Mesoamerican cultures, had on the Maya worldview. Focusing on the Postclassic and Colonial periods, Maya Worldviews at Conquest provides a regional investigation of archaeological and epigraphic evidence of Maya ideology, landscape, historical consciousness, ritual practices, and religious symbolism before and during the Spanish...

Mesoamerican obsidian blades: An experimental approach to function (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne M Lewenstein.

Mesoamerican polyhedral cores and prismatic blades (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Don E Crabtree.

A metate maker of Baja California (1949)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H Aschman.

North and Middle America (1966)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gordon R. Willey.

Obsidian Reflections: Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica (2014)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems. Exploring the materiality of this volcanic glass rather than only its functionality, this book considers the interplay among people, obsidian, and meaning and how these relationships shaped patterns of procurement,...

The origin of Indian corn and its relatives (1939)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul C Mangelsdorf. Richard G Reeves.

Pre-Columbian ballgame handstones: rejoinder to Clune (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S F de Borhegyi.

Pre-Columbian negative painted pottery; some notes and observations (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Cheetham. Ann Woods.

Preliminary Bibliography of the Chol, Lacandon, Yucatec Lacandon, Chol, Mopan, and Quejache of the Southern Maya Lowlands, 1524 - 1969 (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas M. Hellmuth.

Reconstruccions del passat. Un recorregut per l’història d’Europa i Amèrica (1994)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joan Santacana Mestre.