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Another Pinch of Salt

A Comment on Mackinnon and Kepecs

Bibliographic Data

ID2575172
AuthorsJoyce Marcus (University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume56
Issue3
Pages526-527
Publication date1991-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/280901
OpenAlexW2334331240
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited4

This comment corrects statements attributed to me by MacKinnon and Kepecs (1989). What I said was that the rise of the Maya state could not be explained by a massive need for salt imported from great distances, not because salt was archaeologically invisible, but because I was skeptical about any monocausal explanation; furthermore, I did not see that such a massive salt need even existed during the period of state formation

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Period (music) · Salt (chemistry) · Skepticism · State (computer science) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Chemistry · History · Mathematics · Philosophy

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Unique citing works6
Citations per year0,17
Citation span1991 - 2019 (29)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 6
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