Production and Use of Lime for Preclassic Architecture and Causeway Construction in the Mirador Karstic Basin
Author(s): Thomas Schreiner
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Recent Multidisciplinary Investigations in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Excavations over several decades in the Mirador Basin of northern Guatemala, combined with detailed experimental data, have revealed extraordinary use of lime products in the construction and maintenance of Maya causeways, architecture, and associated art. This paper will consider both the quantitative utilization and qualitative innovations which together demonstrate the power and impact of architectural lime as a defining element of early Maya civilization.
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Production and Use of Lime for Preclassic Architecture and Causeway Construction in the Mirador Karstic Basin. Thomas Schreiner. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467340)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Maya lowlands
Spatial Coverage
min long: -94.197; min lat: 16.004 ; max long: -86.682; max lat: 21.984 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 33593