Rubbish or ritual? Contextualizing a Terminal Classic problematical deposit at Blue Creek, Belize: A response to "Public Architecture, Ritual, and Temporal Dynamics at the Maya Center of Blue Creek, Belize" by Thomas H. Guderjan

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 119-130

  Clayton, Sarah C ^a   Driver, W David ^b   Kosakowsky, Laura J ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CERAMICS; CULTURAL HISTORY;

BELIZE; CENTRAL AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23844485507     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536105050042     Document Type: Article

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