Paul F Healy
Biographic Data
| ID | 93631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul F Healy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul F |
| FAMILY NAME | Healy |
| SIGNATURE | HEALY P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9278-8349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 327 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The T-shaped “axe” from Northeast Honduras: Observations on chronology and function of a pre Columbian stone tool
This paper provides a description and analysis of a distinctive type of pre-Columbian stone tool, usually termed a T-shaped axe, found almost exclusively in Northeast Honduras, Central America. There have been very few detailed or technical studies of lithics from Honduras. Early archaeological research and the current understanding of the regional prehistory are included, with Northeast Honduras viewed as a frontier zone located between the Meso…
Mass spectrometric analysis of ancient Maya greenstone artifacts from Pacbitun, Belize
Middle Preclassic period Maya greenstone “triangulates”: Forms, contexts, and geology of a unique Mesoamerican groundstone artifact type
Stable Isotopic Evidence of Ancient Maya Diet at Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize
The skeletal remains of 18 individuals interred at the ancient Maya site of Caledonia (100 to 1000 C.E.), located in the Cayo District of Belize, w ere sampled for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis in order to reconstruct their diet. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in 18 bone collagen samples and stable carbon isotope ratios in bioapatite from 15 bone and 6 tooth enamel samples were assessed. Small sample sizes precluded the a…
Ancient Maya Mosaic Mirrors: Function, Symbolism, and Meaning
This paper examines the composite lithic artifacts of the ancient Maya commonly termed “mirrors.” Typically flat, shiny objects with polished iron-ore polygons fitted in a mosaic pattern onto a slate backing, we assess these plaques for the technological, spatiotemporal, and functional contexts of their manufacture. Data from over 500 archaeological specimens, from dozens of Maya sites in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras, were examined as p…
Survey, Settlement, and Population History at the Ancient Maya Site of Pacbitun, Belize
Survey and excavations of mounds on the outskirts of the site of Pacbitun in western Belize provide insights to the ancient Maya settlement pattern at this medium-sized regional center. This research employed two methods: analysis of structural remains from four separate 1000 m transect surveys, and a subsequent complete (100%) survey of intervening and adjacent quadrant areas. The overlap of quadrant zones with portions of the transect units per…
The Anthropology of Mesoamerican Caves
Caves used in antiquity had multiple functions and often long use histories. While many were employed for shelter, some became ritual sites. Revitalized interest in caves in Mesoamerica combines archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, and osteology. The current, general anthropological study of caves offers exceptional insights into early Mesoamerican customs, ceremonies, and beliefs, and indicates that caves played a significant role …
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
P]rovides a forum for principal Cuban and American archaeologists to update the current state of Cuban archaeological research --from rock art and potsherds to mortuary practices and historical renovation --thereby filling in the information gap created by political separation.Each group of researchers brings significant new resources to the effort, including strong conservation regulations, innovative studies of lithic and shell assemblages, and…
The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation
The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands: Collapse, Transition, and Transformation. Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice, and Don S. Rice, eds. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004. 676 pp
Detection of ancient maize in lowland Maya soils using stable carbon isotopes: Evidence from Caracol, Belize
A reconstruction of Middle Preclassic Maya subsistence economy at Cahal Pech, Belize
The recovery of animal and plant remains from the site of Cahal Pech provides data on early diet and subsistence practices in the Belize Valley region of the Maya lowlands. Analysis of the material remains suggests that the Middle Preclassic Maya were practising a mixed subsistence economy relying on agricultural foodstuffs, local terrestrial game species, freshwater fish and shellfish and marine reef fishes. Isotopic analysis of human bone is us…
An Ancient Maya Multiple Burial at Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize
Salvage excavation of a small Maya temple-pyramid at the site of Caledonia in the Cayo District of western Belize has repealed a Classic period vaulted tomb containing the remains of multiple individuals. The rich ceramic assemblage from the burial included transitional Tzakol3–Tepeu 1 (A.C.450–650) vessels(17 in total), along with obsidian blades, carved jade and shell jewelry, and other stone artifacts. Osteological examination of the human ske…
Pacbitun (Belize) and ancient Maya use of slate
As well as jade, obsidian, chert and limestone, the Classic Maya of Central America were accomplished workers of another stone-slate. Recent research at the site of Pacbitun, Belize, where a possible slate workshop has come to light, is cause to look closely at Maya slate-working and the scientific means to study it
Flakes to Blades? Middle Formative Development of Obsidian Artifacts in the Upper Belize River Valley
The recovery of obsidian artifacts in radiometrically dated cultural stratigraphic levels at the Maya site of Cahal Pech (Belize) suggests that there was a flake-to-bladelet sequence of development of obsidian technology in the Belize Valley region of the Maya lowlands. Obsidian artifacts within levels dating to the first half of the early Middle Formative period (1000-850 B.C.) at Cahal Pech consist exclusively of flakes. Prismatic blades first …
Intensive Agriculture, Social Status, and Maya Diet at Pacbitun, Belize
The reconstruction of diet using analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of human bone collagen from the recently discovered Maya civic-ceremonial site of Pacbitun, Belize, provides some insight into the relationship between the role of intensive agricultural practice and site abandonment. Maize dependency appears to have changed in degree from the Early Classic (Tzul phase A.D. 250-550) to the Terminal Classic (Tzib phase A.D. 700-900) p…
Son of Garnaut” and Asian studies in Australia
(1992). “Son of Garnaut” and Asian studies in Australia. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 38-43
The Ancient Maya Ballcourt at Pacbitun, Belize
Excavations of a ceremonial ballcourt, undertaken at the Lowland Maya center of Pacbitun in western Belize, have provided details about ancient construction techniques and major diachronic structural changes to this special class of Precolumbian architecture. Some of the identified building alterations may have necessitated changes in the manner of playing the sacred Maya game at Pacbitun. A brief description of the excavations and construction h…
The Garnaut report: Implications for Asian studies
Excavations at Pacbitun, Belize: Preliminary Report on the 1986 and 1987 Investigations
The ancient, but only recently discovered, Maya site of Pacbitun, located in the Cayo District of western Belize, is a compact, medium-sized lowland center first settled about 900 B.C., during the Middle Preclassic Period. The settlement expanded in succeeding centuries, and flourished during the Late and Terminal Classic Periods (A.C. 550–900) before being abandoned. Field investigations during 1986 and 1987 have resulted in a detailed map of th…
Ancient and Modern Maya Exploitation of theJuteSnail (Pachychilus)
Although the economic basis of the ancient lowland Maya civilization was principally maize agriculture, throughout their long history the Maya remained proficient fishers, hunters, and gatherers. Research increasingly has suggested early and extensive Maya exploitation of the freshwater molluscan speciesPachychilus, called jute by the modern Maya. This report reviews archaeological evidence for use of this stream- and river-dwelling invertebrate …
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology: Contributions From Ethnoarchaeology on Mesoamerican Peasants [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
Caracol, Belize: Evidence of Ancient Maya Agricultural Terraces
Recent studies of ancient Maya settlement and demography indicate population densities exceeding those achievable using traditional swidden farming techniques, and suggest that more intensive farming methodologies such as terracing were employed. This paper describes recent archaeological investigations at the major Maya ceremonial center of Caracol, Cayo District, Belize, a poorly known region of the southern Maya lowlands. Research concentrated…
An Ancient Maya Dam in the Cayo District, Belize
Management of water systems is often considered by anthropologists and archaeologists as a catalytic force in the rise of prehistoric, highly developed societies. Recent studies of the hydraulic engineering skills of the ancient lowland Maya have shown some of their remarkable capabilities for controlling water, including the construction of stone dams. This paper examines new evidence of one such Maya construction located in western Belize, Cent…
Adaptive Radiations in Prehistoric Panama
economies, for example, such a framework only seems to stand in the way. In this case, internal developments need to be articulated with external ones if headway is to be made on the problem. One risk of Barker's approach is that it might place the study of cultural change in a new conceptual straightjacket. It is difficult to evaluate the primacy to subsistence in Barker's work. This is in part for practical reasons. Sites with evidence of the q…
Revisionist Anthropology: Aboriginal North America [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological discussions of North American Indians and archaeological interpretation of North American prehistory tend to be distorted by biases, some the "cant of conquest," others derived from the structuring principles of the European tradition. Tripartite schemata such as the Three-Age model and premises of oppositional dualism such as the contrast between primitive and civilized should be assumed to come from these structuring principles …
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology: Contributions From Ethnoarchaeology on Mesoamerican Peasants [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
Intensive Agriculture, Social Status, and Maya Diet at Pacbitun, Belize
The reconstruction of diet using analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of human bone collagen from the recently discovered Maya civic-ceremonial site of Pacbitun, Belize, provides some insight into the relationship between the role of intensive agricultural practice and site abandonment. Maize dependency appears to have changed in degree from the Early Classic (Tzul phase A.D. 250-550) to the Terminal Classic (Tzib phase A.D. 700-900) p…
Ancient and Modern Maya Exploitation of theJuteSnail (Pachychilus)
Although the economic basis of the ancient lowland Maya civilization was principally maize agriculture, throughout their long history the Maya remained proficient fishers, hunters, and gatherers. Research increasingly has suggested early and extensive Maya exploitation of the freshwater molluscan speciesPachychilus, called jute by the modern Maya. This report reviews archaeological evidence for use of this stream- and river-dwelling invertebrate …
Caracol, Belize: Evidence of Ancient Maya Agricultural Terraces
Recent studies of ancient Maya settlement and demography indicate population densities exceeding those achievable using traditional swidden farming techniques, and suggest that more intensive farming methodologies such as terracing were employed. This paper describes recent archaeological investigations at the major Maya ceremonial center of Caracol, Cayo District, Belize, a poorly known region of the southern Maya lowlands. Research concentrated…
Detection of ancient maize in lowland Maya soils using stable carbon isotopes: Evidence from Caracol, Belize
Flakes to Blades? Middle Formative Development of Obsidian Artifacts in the Upper Belize River Valley
The recovery of obsidian artifacts in radiometrically dated cultural stratigraphic levels at the Maya site of Cahal Pech (Belize) suggests that there was a flake-to-bladelet sequence of development of obsidian technology in the Belize Valley region of the Maya lowlands. Obsidian artifacts within levels dating to the first half of the early Middle Formative period (1000-850 B.C.) at Cahal Pech consist exclusively of flakes. Prismatic blades first …
A reconstruction of Middle Preclassic Maya subsistence economy at Cahal Pech, Belize
The recovery of animal and plant remains from the site of Cahal Pech provides data on early diet and subsistence practices in the Belize Valley region of the Maya lowlands. Analysis of the material remains suggests that the Middle Preclassic Maya were practising a mixed subsistence economy relying on agricultural foodstuffs, local terrestrial game species, freshwater fish and shellfish and marine reef fishes. Isotopic analysis of human bone is us…
The Cuyamel Caves: Preclassic Sites in Northeast Honduras
The southern border of Mesoamerica is traditionally drawn at the Ulua river of western Honduras, before dipping southward to include El Salvador, Pacific Nicaragua, and northwest Costa Rica. Recent work in the Department of Colón, Honduras, provides the earliest evidence of aboriginal occupation in the region and extends the established chronological sequence back more than a thousand years. A preliminary examination of the ceramics, and a compar…
Ancient Maya Mosaic Mirrors: Function, Symbolism, and Meaning
This paper examines the composite lithic artifacts of the ancient Maya commonly termed “mirrors.” Typically flat, shiny objects with polished iron-ore polygons fitted in a mosaic pattern onto a slate backing, we assess these plaques for the technological, spatiotemporal, and functional contexts of their manufacture. Data from over 500 archaeological specimens, from dozens of Maya sites in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras, were examined as p…
Excavations at Pacbitun, Belize: Preliminary Report on the 1986 and 1987 Investigations
The ancient, but only recently discovered, Maya site of Pacbitun, located in the Cayo District of western Belize, is a compact, medium-sized lowland center first settled about 900 B.C., during the Middle Preclassic Period. The settlement expanded in succeeding centuries, and flourished during the Late and Terminal Classic Periods (A.C. 550–900) before being abandoned. Field investigations during 1986 and 1987 have resulted in a detailed map of th…
Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology
P]rovides a forum for principal Cuban and American archaeologists to update the current state of Cuban archaeological research --from rock art and potsherds to mortuary practices and historical renovation --thereby filling in the information gap created by political separation.Each group of researchers brings significant new resources to the effort, including strong conservation regulations, innovative studies of lithic and shell assemblages, and…
An Ancient Maya Dam in the Cayo District, Belize
Management of water systems is often considered by anthropologists and archaeologists as a catalytic force in the rise of prehistoric, highly developed societies. Recent studies of the hydraulic engineering skills of the ancient lowland Maya have shown some of their remarkable capabilities for controlling water, including the construction of stone dams. This paper examines new evidence of one such Maya construction located in western Belize, Cent…
Pacbitun (Belize) and ancient Maya use of slate
As well as jade, obsidian, chert and limestone, the Classic Maya of Central America were accomplished workers of another stone-slate. Recent research at the site of Pacbitun, Belize, where a possible slate workshop has come to light, is cause to look closely at Maya slate-working and the scientific means to study it
Archaeological Films: The Past as Present1
Motion-picture films continue to be one of the least discussed aspects of archaeological teaching and research. This essay provides an introductory overview of the more than 170 archaeological films presently distributed in the United States. The history, advantages, and potentials of films in archaeology are also discussed. Reviews of all the films mentioned in this essay are to be found in the accompanying review sections or in recent issues of…
Revisionist Anthropology: Aboriginal North America [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological discussions of North American Indians and archaeological interpretation of North American prehistory tend to be distorted by biases, some the "cant of conquest," others derived from the structuring principles of the European tradition. Tripartite schemata such as the Three-Age model and premises of oppositional dualism such as the contrast between primitive and civilized should be assumed to come from these structuring principles …
The Ancient Maya Ballcourt at Pacbitun, Belize
Excavations of a ceremonial ballcourt, undertaken at the Lowland Maya center of Pacbitun in western Belize, have provided details about ancient construction techniques and major diachronic structural changes to this special class of Precolumbian architecture. Some of the identified building alterations may have necessitated changes in the manner of playing the sacred Maya game at Pacbitun. A brief description of the excavations and construction h…
An Ancient Maya Multiple Burial at Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize
Salvage excavation of a small Maya temple-pyramid at the site of Caledonia in the Cayo District of western Belize has repealed a Classic period vaulted tomb containing the remains of multiple individuals. The rich ceramic assemblage from the burial included transitional Tzakol3–Tepeu 1 (A.C.450–650) vessels(17 in total), along with obsidian blades, carved jade and shell jewelry, and other stone artifacts. Osteological examination of the human ske…
The Anthropology of Mesoamerican Caves
Caves used in antiquity had multiple functions and often long use histories. While many were employed for shelter, some became ritual sites. Revitalized interest in caves in Mesoamerica combines archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, epigraphy, and osteology. The current, general anthropological study of caves offers exceptional insights into early Mesoamerican customs, ceremonies, and beliefs, and indicates that caves played a significant role …
The Garnaut report: Implications for Asian studies
Stable Isotopic Evidence of Ancient Maya Diet at Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize
The skeletal remains of 18 individuals interred at the ancient Maya site of Caledonia (100 to 1000 C.E.), located in the Cayo District of Belize, w ere sampled for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis in order to reconstruct their diet. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in 18 bone collagen samples and stable carbon isotope ratios in bioapatite from 15 bone and 6 tooth enamel samples were assessed. Small sample sizes precluded the a…
Survey, Settlement, and Population History at the Ancient Maya Site of Pacbitun, Belize
Survey and excavations of mounds on the outskirts of the site of Pacbitun in western Belize provide insights to the ancient Maya settlement pattern at this medium-sized regional center. This research employed two methods: analysis of structural remains from four separate 1000 m transect surveys, and a subsequent complete (100%) survey of intervening and adjacent quadrant areas. The overlap of quadrant zones with portions of the transect units per…
Son of Garnaut” and Asian studies in Australia
(1992). “Son of Garnaut” and Asian studies in Australia. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 38-43
Excavations at Rio Claro, Northeast Honduras: Preliminary Report
During the summer of 1975, preliminary survey, mapping, and excavations were conducted at the H-CN-12:Rio Claro site, a sizeable Pre-Hispanic village settlement in the Department of ColónNE Honduras, Central America. Artifactual remains and chronometric determinations indicate that the settlement was inhabited during the Cocal Period (ca. 1000-1530 A.C.). This report describes the location and layout of H-CN-12:Rio Claro, principal excavations, t…
Archaeological Films—New World: Who Discovered America
The Cuyamel Caves: Preclassic Sites in Northeast Honduras
The southern border of Mesoamerica is traditionally drawn at the Ulua river of western Honduras, before dipping southward to include El Salvador, Pacific Nicaragua, and northwest Costa Rica. Recent work in the Department of Colón, Honduras, provides the earliest evidence of aboriginal occupation in the region and extends the established chronological sequence back more than a thousand years. A preliminary examination of the ceramics, and a compar…
Archaeological Films: The Past as Present1
Motion-picture films continue to be one of the least discussed aspects of archaeological teaching and research. This essay provides an introductory overview of the more than 170 archaeological films presently distributed in the United States. The history, advantages, and potentials of films in archaeology are also discussed. Reviews of all the films mentioned in this essay are to be found in the accompanying review sections or in recent issues of…
Archaeological Films—New World: Who Discovered America
Mesoamerica: Civilizations of Ancient America
North America: Early Man in North America
Archaeological Films-New World: The Ancient New World
Archaeological Films-New World: In Search of the Lost World
Reply to Paulsen's Comment on Healy's Review
Excavations at Rio Claro, Northeast Honduras: Preliminary Report
During the summer of 1975, preliminary survey, mapping, and excavations were conducted at the H-CN-12:Rio Claro site, a sizeable Pre-Hispanic village settlement in the Department of ColónNE Honduras, Central America. Artifactual remains and chronometric determinations indicate that the settlement was inhabited during the Cocal Period (ca. 1000-1530 A.C.). This report describes the location and layout of H-CN-12:Rio Claro, principal excavations, t…
Adaptive Radiations in Prehistoric Panama
economies, for example, such a framework only seems to stand in the way. In this case, internal developments need to be articulated with external ones if headway is to be made on the problem. One risk of Barker's approach is that it might place the study of cultural change in a new conceptual straightjacket. It is difficult to evaluate the primacy to subsistence in Barker's work. This is in part for practical reasons. Sites with evidence of the q…
Revisionist Anthropology: Aboriginal North America [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological discussions of North American Indians and archaeological interpretation of North American prehistory tend to be distorted by biases, some the "cant of conquest," others derived from the structuring principles of the European tradition. Tripartite schemata such as the Three-Age model and premises of oppositional dualism such as the contrast between primitive and civilized should be assumed to come from these structuring principles …
Caracol, Belize: Evidence of Ancient Maya Agricultural Terraces
Recent studies of ancient Maya settlement and demography indicate population densities exceeding those achievable using traditional swidden farming techniques, and suggest that more intensive farming methodologies such as terracing were employed. This paper describes recent archaeological investigations at the major Maya ceremonial center of Caracol, Cayo District, Belize, a poorly known region of the southern Maya lowlands. Research concentrated…
An Ancient Maya Dam in the Cayo District, Belize
Management of water systems is often considered by anthropologists and archaeologists as a catalytic force in the rise of prehistoric, highly developed societies. Recent studies of the hydraulic engineering skills of the ancient lowland Maya have shown some of their remarkable capabilities for controlling water, including the construction of stone dams. This paper examines new evidence of one such Maya construction located in western Belize, Cent…
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology: Contributions From Ethnoarchaeology on Mesoamerican Peasants [and Comments and Reply]
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
The Garnaut report: Implications for Asian studies
Excavations at Pacbitun, Belize: Preliminary Report on the 1986 and 1987 Investigations
The ancient, but only recently discovered, Maya site of Pacbitun, located in the Cayo District of western Belize, is a compact, medium-sized lowland center first settled about 900 B.C., during the Middle Preclassic Period. The settlement expanded in succeeding centuries, and flourished during the Late and Terminal Classic Periods (A.C. 550–900) before being abandoned. Field investigations during 1986 and 1987 have resulted in a detailed map of th…
Ancient and Modern Maya Exploitation of theJuteSnail (Pachychilus)
Although the economic basis of the ancient lowland Maya civilization was principally maize agriculture, throughout their long history the Maya remained proficient fishers, hunters, and gatherers. Research increasingly has suggested early and extensive Maya exploitation of the freshwater molluscan speciesPachychilus, called jute by the modern Maya. This report reviews archaeological evidence for use of this stream- and river-dwelling invertebrate …
Son of Garnaut” and Asian studies in Australia
(1992). “Son of Garnaut” and Asian studies in Australia. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 38-43
The Ancient Maya Ballcourt at Pacbitun, Belize
Excavations of a ceremonial ballcourt, undertaken at the Lowland Maya center of Pacbitun in western Belize, have provided details about ancient construction techniques and major diachronic structural changes to this special class of Precolumbian architecture. Some of the identified building alterations may have necessitated changes in the manner of playing the sacred Maya game at Pacbitun. A brief description of the excavations and construction h…
Intensive Agriculture, Social Status, and Maya Diet at Pacbitun, Belize
The reconstruction of diet using analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of human bone collagen from the recently discovered Maya civic-ceremonial site of Pacbitun, Belize, provides some insight into the relationship between the role of intensive agricultural practice and site abandonment. Maize dependency appears to have changed in degree from the Early Classic (Tzul phase A.D. 250-550) to the Terminal Classic (Tzib phase A.D. 700-900) p…
Flakes to Blades? Middle Formative Development of Obsidian Artifacts in the Upper Belize River Valley
The recovery of obsidian artifacts in radiometrically dated cultural stratigraphic levels at the Maya site of Cahal Pech (Belize) suggests that there was a flake-to-bladelet sequence of development of obsidian technology in the Belize Valley region of the Maya lowlands. Obsidian artifacts within levels dating to the first half of the early Middle Formative period (1000-850 B.C.) at Cahal Pech consist exclusively of flakes. Prismatic blades first …
Pacbitun (Belize) and ancient Maya use of slate
As well as jade, obsidian, chert and limestone, the Classic Maya of Central America were accomplished workers of another stone-slate. Recent research at the site of Pacbitun, Belize, where a possible slate workshop has come to light, is cause to look closely at Maya slate-working and the scientific means to study it
An Ancient Maya Multiple Burial at Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize
Salvage excavation of a small Maya temple-pyramid at the site of Caledonia in the Cayo District of western Belize has repealed a Classic period vaulted tomb containing the remains of multiple individuals. The rich ceramic assemblage from the burial included transitional Tzakol3–Tepeu 1 (A.C.450–650) vessels(17 in total), along with obsidian blades, carved jade and shell jewelry, and other stone artifacts. Osteological examination of the human ske…
A reconstruction of Middle Preclassic Maya subsistence economy at Cahal Pech, Belize
The recovery of animal and plant remains from the site of Cahal Pech provides data on early diet and subsistence practices in the Belize Valley region of the Maya lowlands. Analysis of the material remains suggests that the Middle Preclassic Maya were practising a mixed subsistence economy relying on agricultural foodstuffs, local terrestrial game species, freshwater fish and shellfish and marine reef fishes. Isotopic analysis of human bone is us…
Detection of ancient maize in lowland Maya soils using stable carbon isotopes: Evidence from Caracol, Belize
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