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A summary report on three seasons of field investigations into the Archaic period prehistory of lowland Belize
American anthropologist • 86 (2) • Published In 1984 • Pages: 358-369
By: Zeitlin, Robert N..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Zeitlin summarizes the results of the 1980, 1981, and 1982 field seasons for the Belize Archaic Archaeological Reconnaissance project. He also describes what was done during the 1983 field season without discussing the results. Zeitlin helped direct the operations during the 1982 field season. Six sites found near three different locales (Betz Landing, Sand Hill, and Ladyville) and their collections are described in this article. Three Archaic period components within the 7000 B.P.-4000 B.P. time period are described (Belize, Melinda, and Progreso). As there were few absolute dates, the time periods for these components are tentative.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Topography and geology
- Settlement patterns
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lowland Mesoamerican Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Maya Area
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1982
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 7000 BP-4000 BP (5000 B.C.-2000 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Belize; Belize
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert N. Zeitlin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-369)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of Central America--Antiquities/Indians of