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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.
The Peten Postclassicessay 1986 • Rice, Prudence M.
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Rice examines Postclassic ceramics in the Petén to show that people continued to occupy the lake basins and the people living there were not isolated from the rest of the Maya. Ceramic production was regionalized and there is evidence of both regiona...Topoxte, Macanche, and the central Peten Postclassicessay 1985 • Rice, Prudence M. & Rice, Don S.
Postclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
This is a study of the Postclassic period in the Petén region of Guatemala, with a focus on the islands of Topoxte and Macanche. Excavations at these two sites were carried out as part of an ongoing historical ecology project surveying Maya populatio...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...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 ...