The rise of secondary states in the southeastern periphery of the Maya world: A report on recent archaeological and epigraphic research at Pusilha, Belize

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-233

  Braswell, Geoffrey E ^a   Prager, Christian M ^b   Bill, Cassandra R ^c   Schwake, Sonja A ^a   Braswell, Jennifer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; POLITICAL HISTORY; STATE BUILDING;

BELIZE; CENTRAL AMERICA; PUSILHA; TOLEDO [BELIZE]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12144259899     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536104040143     Document Type: Article

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