Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan: Divergent political trajectories in adjacent Maya polities

Latin American Antiquity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 249-274

  Golden, Charles ^a   Scherer, Andrew K ^b   Muñoz, A René ^c   Vasquez, Rosaura ^d  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN CARLOS DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

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DOI: 10.1017/S104566350000794X     Document Type: Article

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