A Granite Tool Producing Community on the Western Periphery of Pacbitun, Belize
Author(s): Adam King; Sheldon Skaggs; Terry Powis
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Ground Stone Studies in the Eastern Maya Lowlands" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Between 2012 and 2014, a small mound was excavated on the periphery of the Pacbitun site, a medium-sized ancient Maya center located in the Belize River Valley of west-central Belize. That mound revealed a record of the production of 4,000 granite mano and metates dating to the Late Classic period. Since those excavations, a total of 22 similar mounds were recorded with 11 tested, confirming the existence of a granite tool production community. In this paper we present elements of the production process along with initial data on the geographic extent and dating of granite tool production at Pacbitun.
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A Granite Tool Producing Community on the Western Periphery of Pacbitun, Belize. Adam King, Sheldon Skaggs, Terry Powis. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474251)
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Keywords
General
Craft Production
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Lithic Analysis
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Maya: Classic
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Spatial Coverage
min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 36735.0