Use of Aguadas as water management sources in two southern Maya lowland sites

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-101

  Ferrand, Ezgi Akpinar ^a   Dunning, Nicholas P ^b   Lentz, David L ^b   Jones, John G ^c  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANNING HISTORY; URBAN PLANNING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MAYA LOWLANDS; PETEN; SAN BARTOLO;

EID: 84862278669     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: 14691787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536112000065     Document Type: Article

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