Complexities of collapse: The evidence of Maya obsidian as revealed by social network graphical analysis

Antiquity

Volumn 86, Issue 332, 2012, Pages 507-523

  Golitko, Mark ^a   Meierhoff, James ^b   Feinman, Gary M ^a   Williams, Patrick Ryan ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Classic; Maya; Mesoamerica; Obsidian; Postclassic; Social network graphical analysis; Systems collapse; Third fifteenth century AD; Urbanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861657853     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00062906     Document Type: Article

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