Spatial orders in Maya civic plans

Latin American Antiquity

Volumn 13, Issue PART 2, 2002, Pages 201-215

  Ashmore, Wendy ^a   Sabloff, Jeremy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/971914     Document Type: Article

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