Maya coastal production, exchange, life style, and population mobility: A view from the port of Xcambo, Yucatan, Mexico

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 221-238

  Sosa, Thelma Sierra ^a   Cucina, Andrea ^b   Price, T Douglas ^c   Burton, James H ^c   Tiesler, Vera ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGÍA E HISTORIA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CLASSIC PERIOD; ECONOMIC HISTORY; ETHNICITY; LIFESTYLE; MOBILITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PORT; PRODUCTION SYSTEM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VERACRUZ; YUCATAN;

EID: 84905829155     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: 14691787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536114000133     Document Type: Review

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