Book
The Altar de Sacrificios excavations: general summary and conclusions
Peabody Museum • 64 (3) • Published In 1973 • Pages: vi, 85
By: Willey, Gordon Randolph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this document, Willey summarizes the six other monographs on Altar de Sacrificios that appeared in three volumes by him and four other authors. Willey also corrects the mistakes and points out the differences in opinions between the various authors in the other monographs. Willey discusses excavations and analyses that include monumental architecture, house mounds, stelae, burials, ceramics, votive offerings, settlement patterns and the layout within Altar de Sacrificios, the relative size of the population and its probable general health, the development of a nonegalitarian society, and the various trends through time.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Prehistory
- Sociocultural trends
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Visual arts
- Ordering of time
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 1958-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2100 BP - 1100 BP (100 B.C. - 900 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Altar de Sacrificios; El Peten, Guatemala
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Gordon R. Willey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-85)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73077202
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities