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DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Stark.

A.J. Vonarx recorded attributes of chert bifacial artifacts, apparently all are projectile points.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jason Barret.

ABSTRACT Constructing Hierarchy through Entitlement: Inequality in Lithic Resource Access among the Ancient Maya of Blue Creek, Belize. (December 2004) Jason Wallace Barrett, B.A., Rhode Island College; M.A., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Harry J. Shafer This dissertation tests the theory that lithic raw materials were a strategic resource among the ancient Maya of Blue Creek, Belize that markedly influenced the development of socio-economic hierarchies...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Driver.

This dissertation examines the design variation present in the ritual and domestic architecture of the Maya site of Blue Creek, Belize, in an attempt to understand how differences in architectural style may have been linked to the construction of local, intra-community sociopolitical identities within this ancient Maya community. The study employs a practice-based, technological style theoretical perspective which views all material culture style, including that of architecture and the built...

PROJECT Ronald Faulseit.

This archive contains all of the data derived from field research at the site of Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico. This is a multi-year project consisting of intensive survey and mapping, as well as comprehensive excavations. The mapping and survey are designed to provide a detailed topographic map of the site and provide a basic temporal and spatial settlement description. Intensive excavations are focused on residential areas. This project has been financially supported...

DOCUMENT Full-Text thomas guderjan.

Intensive agriculture supported large ancient Maya populations. However, there have been few attempts to understand how agriculture was integrated with the political economy of a Maya city and that city’s interaction with other polities. The site of Blue Creek in northern Belize offers the opportunity to begin to assess these relationships. Blue Creek had access to enormous agricultural resources and direct access to the riverine coastal trade system. The combination of these factors enabled...

DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

This file contains all of the data from Dr. Heather Laphams analysis of the animal bones collected during the 2015 excavation of Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl, Oaxaca, Mexico

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This is the report by Dr. Heather Lapham of the analysis of the faunal materials recovered during the 2015 excavations of Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

Excavation forms for features excavated on Terrace S25

DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

Frequency data for all ceramic materials collected on Terrace O8 during the 2015 excavations. See project report 2015 for more information

DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

This file contains all of the frequency counts for ceramic categories from the excavated units on Terrace S25. It does not include the frequency data from other excavated contexts (elements, burials, features), unless otherwise noted in the comments. For more information on the ceramic categories, please see the project report for 2015

DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

This file contains all of the ceramic frequency counts for the excavations that took place on Terrace S19 and S20 of Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl in the 2008-2009 field season. Please see project report for 2010 for further information on artifact categories and assignments.

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A key question in economic history is the degree to which preindustrial economies could generate sustained increases in per capita productivity. Previous studies suggest that, in many preindustrial contexts, growth was primarily a consequence of agglomeration. Here, we examine evidence for three different socioeconomic rates that are available from the archaeological record for Roman Britain. We find that all three measures show increasing returns to scale with settlement population, with a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson.

Field work from the 1992 season at La Quemada

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson. Loni Kantor. Ian Robertson. Vincent Schiavitti. Nicola M. Strazicich. Paula Turkon.

Fieldwork from the 1993 season at La Quemada

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Guderjan. David Driver. Helen Haines.

Our Goals are to examine the site of Blue Creek to better understand the political and economic interaction between the Maya of the Coastal Belize Zone and those of the Eastern Peten Zone. In addition, we view the Blue Creek project as an opportunity to undertake a comprehensive, integrated community study.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip J.M. Thomason.

The purpose of this study is to provide an historical overview of the development of the base and to document all significant pre-1946 buildings which remain. A total of 119 buildings were determined to meet the criteria of age and significance and these buildings were inventoried in accordance with standards set forth by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.

PROJECT Rani T Alexander.

With the permission of the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, intensive archaeological survey, instrument mapping, and test excavations were carried out at Isla Cilvituk from 1994 to 1996. Isla Cilvituk is a large aggregated site, 50 hectares in size, located on an island in Laguna Silvituc and situated in a lacustrine zone that runs to the south from Lake Mocu, Campeche, to the Peten Lakes, Guatemala. We completed a 100 percent full-coverage survey of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rani T Alexander. Elena Canché Manzanero. Richard Burleson. Hea Joo Chung. Juan Carlos Cruz. Michael Glascock. Sergio Hererra. Alejandra Gudino. John A. Hunter. Brian Fortunato. David Lentz. Amanda L. Martinez.

Con la autorización del Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, se llevó al cabo el trabajo de campo entre junio hasta agosto de los años 1994, 1995, y 1996. Los análisis del gabinete y del laboratorio se condujeron durante los meses en medio y los años subsecuentes. La primera fase del proyecto involucró el reconocimiento intensivo, el levantamiento y mapeo del sitio, y excavaciones de sondeo para determinar si era probable que las investigaciones de la...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristen L. Scudder.

Previous research in Mesoamerican fauna analysis has contributed insights into resource use, but Maya turtle use remains unexamined. Faunal analysis, zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, and behavioral archaeology provide a guideline into the past taphonomic and life histories of the turtle bones recovered from Isla Cilvituk (A.D. 900-1525). The primary objective of my research is to establish an archaeology model of exploitation of the small and large turtles recovered from Isla...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sean T. Arata.

My main goal with this thesis was to create a sampling design, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which would allow me to determine the best datable contexts at Isla Cilvituk. Once this sampling design was created, I analyzed the spatial distribution of these datable contexts using the frequency of specimens divided by the total volume of each archaeological layer as a measurement of density (m3). This analysis was divided into two parts. The first analysis looked at the distribution...

PROJECT Ben Nelson. Arizona State Universtity. Andrea Torvinen.

For over 15 years, Mexican and American archaeologists and students have dug ancient ruins, walked the high desert landscape, and worked in laboratories to understand the rise and fall of La Quemada, Zacatecas. We want to know why societies become complex, developing social hierarchies with specialized economic, political, and religious roles for their members. Why do civilizations expand? Northern Mexico's ancient past is an ideal context for studying these questions. During the period A.D....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ruth Maria Martínez Cervantes.

This thesis analyzes the social and subsistence value of the freshwater gasptropod Pomacea spp. in Isla Cilvituk. This is a Postclassic (900 -1525 A.D.) archaeological site on the Maya lowlands. The site is located in Lake Silvituc, Campeche, Mexico. Freshwater resources, such as Pomacea sp., have been neglected from archaeological studies. Scholars have argued that these types of resources are of little importance to the diet, stating that these contain low nutritional value, and even excluding...

IMAGE Thomas Guderjan.

This information resource is comprised of large format feature planview and profile maps and selected artifact illustrations from the Blue Creek Central Precinct, Ditched Fields, Chan Cahal, and Kin Tan

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This pdf file contains all of the level forms for Terrace O8, which were excavated in January of 2015.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This .pdf file contains all of the level forms for the excavations conducted on Terrace S19, on Cerro Danush in Oaxaca, Mexico. Excavations took place between August and November of 2009. The first two pages show the grid system and the level forms are organized by northing and easting. Please see the project report for 2010 for more information.