The paleoecology and ancient settlement of the Petexbatun region, Guatemala

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 255-266

  Dunning, Nicholas ^a   Beach, Timothy ^b   Rue, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Archaeo and Hist Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; CLASSIC PERIOD; HISTORICAL STUDY; MAYA PEOPLE; PALAEOECOLOGY; REGIONAL SETTLEMENT;

GUATEMALA, PETEN, PETEXBATUN;

EID: 0031392553     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536100001711     Document Type: Article

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