Defensibility and settlement patterns in the Guatemalan Maya highlands

Latin American Antiquity

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 191-211

  Borgstede, Greg ^a   Mathieu, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/25063104     Document Type: Article

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