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Linear features in Zone Iessay 1983 • Fletcher, Laraine A.
Classic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Fletcher classifies and examines the linear features at Cobá. These features had multiple functions, such as: house-lot boundary walls, soil retention walls, walls constructed on top of platforms, and walkways connecting house platforms to wells or w...Coba and Mayapanessay 1983 • Fletcher, Laraine A.
Classic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Fletcher looks at SOLARES as defined by house-lot boundary walls (SOLARES are not just a Post-classic phenomenon) to examine social-political organization and land tenure. She found house-lot walls are not found in association with ceremonial complex...SOLARES, kitchen gardens, and social status at Cobaessay 1983 • Fletcher, Laraine A. & Kintz, Ellen R.
Classic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Fletcher analyzes the 144 stone house-lot boundary walls in Zone I at Cobá. These stone house-lot boundary walls are assumed to be similar to modern day and 16th century SOLARES which contain household activity areas and usually kitchen gardens. Flet...A reconstruction of the prehistoric population at Cobaessay 1983 • Kintz, Ellen R. & Fletcher, Laraine A.
Classic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Kintz and Fletcher estimate the population for Late Classic Cobá using different calculations from various other Mayanists. Ethnohistoric and ethnographic data of the Maya from Yucatan and archaeological data from Cobá are used to help adjust these p...