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Postclassic temporal and spatial frames for the lowland Maya: a background
lowland maya postclassic • Austin • Published In 1985 • Pages: 9-22
By: Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), Chase, Diane Z..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dating within the Postclassic period is complicated by a number of factors: (1) lack of monuments with long count dates as in the Classic period; (2) the scarcity of deeply stratified Postclassic deposits, and until recently [ca. 1980s] (3)the small sample of Postclassic sites excavated (pp. 9, 11). As a result of the above dating techniques are largely dependent upon ceramic analysis to provide the relative age of excavated materials. This study describes the manner in which ceramic analysis has been applied in determing chronologies and cultural sequences at various sites in Yucatan, Belize, and the Petén region of Guatemala.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Postclassic Maya
- 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
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2000
- 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
- 1100 BP-480 BP (900 A.D.-1520 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yucatan peninsula, Mexico; Petén region, Guatemala; Belize
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
- For bibliographical references see document number 2:Anonymous
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84013168
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities