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Nonceramic artifacts from Laurel culture sites excavated prior to 1961essay 1973 • Webster, David L.
Initial Shield Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Webster '…describes the stone, bone, antler, tooth, shell, bark, and copper artifacts excavated from the Laurel sites of northern Minnesota…' (page 94). Webster also describes the Blackduck artifacts since '…both Laurel and Blackduck remains are mixe...Warfare and the evolution of Maya civilizationessay 1977 • Webster, David L.
Preclassic Maya • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
Based on his own work at the fortified site of Becan in southern Campeche, Mexico, Webster argues that large-scale conflict occurred much earlier in the Maya record than previously thought. Scholars thought large-scale conflict occurred only at the e...