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Tradition summary: Classic Maya
HRAF • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2000 • Pages:
By: Sharer, Robert J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the Classic Maya Tradition.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Classic Maya
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- essay
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leon G. Doyon ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2100-1100 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Mesoamerica including Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert F. Sharer
- The tradition summary is from the article, "Classic Maya," by Robert Sharer, in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 5, Middle America, Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum 2001. We thank Robert Sharer and Peter N. Peregrine for bibliographic suggestions.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities