Settlement Zone Communities of The Greater Blue Creek Area - Occasional Paper 2

Part of the Blue Creek Central Precinct project

Author(s): Robert Lichtenstein

Year: 2000

Summary

The present work is an archaeological study of the settlement zone of the greater Blue Creek Area, located in the upper Rio Hondo drainage of northwestern Belize. The excavation data reported here were recovered during the 1997 and 1998 field seasons of the Maya Research Program's Blue Creek Project inder the direction of Dr. Thomas H. Guderjan PhD.

Cite this Record

Settlement Zone Communities of The Greater Blue Creek Area - Occasional Paper 2. Robert Lichtenstein. 2000 ( tDAR id: 6709) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8125RJ6

Keywords

Culture
Maya

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Mineral • Pollen • Shell

Site Name
Blue Creek

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Ball Court • Burial Pit • Commercial or Industrial Structures • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Isolated Burial • Non-Domestic Structures • Plaza • Pyramid • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Settlements • Structure • Temple • Tomb • Water-Related

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Architectural Documentation • Architectural Survey • Bioarchaeological Research • Collections Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey

General
Blue Creek

Temporal Keywords
Aguas Turbias Ceramic Complex, Late Classic I Period (A.D. 600–750) • Cool Shade Ceramic Complex, Early Middle Preclassic Period (1000/800–650 B.C.) • Dos Bocas Ceramic Complex, Late Classic II Period (A.D. 750–830/850) • Leguas Ceramic Complex, Late Preclassic Period (350 B.C.–A.D. 100) • Linda Vista Ceramic Complex, Terminal Late Preclassic Period (A.D. 100/150–250) • Postclassic Period (after A.D. 1000) • Rio Bravo Ceramic Complex, Terminal Classic Period (A.D. 830/850–1000) • Rio Hondo Ceramic Complex, Early Classic Period (A.D. 250–600) • San Felipe Ceramic Complex, Middle Preclassic Preclassic ( 650–350 B.C.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -88.888; min lat: 17.868 ; max long: -88.848; max lat: 17.897 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Stephen Reichardt

Project Director(s): Thomas Guderjan

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