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eHRAF is comprised of thousands of ethnographic sources including monographs, journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts. Use this page to find relevant documents by searching or filtering. Each document in eHRAF also contains a Publication Information page with added metadata including brief abstracts written by HRAF analysts who have subject-indexed the file.
Postclassic Peten interaction spheresessay 1985 • Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank)
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
In 1970 the University of Pennsylvania Tayasal Project, sponsored by the University Museum, began a series of excavations in the Tayasal-Paxcaman Zone in the central Petén region of Guatemala, in an attempt to delineate the Postclassic sequence in th...Time depth or vacuumessay 1986 • Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank)
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Chase proposes the Spanish arrived on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mayan year 11.3.0.0.0 (or 1541 A.D. of the Christian calendar) not the usually accepted 11.16.0.0.0. He points out that there were at least two different Mayan calendars in operation ...Introductionessay 1985 • Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank) & Rice, Prudence M.
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a brief introductory article to eHRAF documents 8-29 which appear in this file. The authors attempt to define the Postclassic period and to point out several themes to be found in the analysis of the data from this time period (e.g., trade, c...Postclassic temporal and spatial frames for the lowland Mayaessay 1985 • Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank) & Chase, Diane Z.
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Dating within the Postclassic period is complicated by a number of factors: (1) lack of monuments with long count dates as in the Classic period; (2) the scarcity of deeply stratified Postclassic deposits, and until recently [ca. 1980s] (3)the small ...The northern lowlandsessay 1985 • Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank) & Rice, Prudence M.
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Chase and Rice summarize the major features of the Postclassic period (with particular attention to settlement patterns, architecture, ceramics) in what they call the northern lowlands area -- the northern shores of Yucatan to the modern territorial ...The southern lowlandsessay 1985 • Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank) & Rice, Prudence M.
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a study of the Postclassic period in the southern Maya lowlands centered on the modern Department of Petén in northern Guatemala and extending into parts of adjacent Belize. The authors discuss events following the so-called 'Classic Maya col...The peripheriesessay 1985 • Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank) & Rice, Prudence M.
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This very brief article discusses the culture contacts of the Postclassic Maya with other groups to the west, south, and southeast of them. These contacts were primarily in the form of trading relations, although militarism has been suggested as one ...