Research Catalog

Title

Continuing archeology at Colha, Belize / edited by Thomas R. Hester, Harry J. Shafer, and Jack D. Eaton.

Publication

Austin, Tex. : Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Eaton, Jack D.
• Hester, Thomas R.
• Shafer, Harry J.
• Texas Archeological Research Laboratory.

Description

xiii, 294 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

• Papers of the Colha project ; v. 6
• Studies in archeology ; 16

Uniform Title

• Papers of the Colha Project ; v. 6.
• Studies in archeology (Austin, Tex.) ; 16.

Subject

• Belize > Antiquities
• Colha Site (Belize)
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Belize
• Indians of Central America > Belize > Antiquities
• Mayas > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The archeological investigations of the Colha Project, 1983 and 1984 / Thomas R. Hester -- The Colha ceramic complexes / Fred Valdez, Jr. -- Preliminary report on the Colha settlement survey / Eleanor M. King -- Commmunity-wide lithic craft specialization in the late preclassic lowland Maya / Harry J. Shafer -- Srat 55, operation 2012 and comments on lowland Maya blood ritual / Dana Anthony and Stephen L. Black -- Analysis of the human skeletal remains from operation 2031, Colha, Belize / Diane Young -- An overview of the excavations at operation 2032, Colha, Belize / Fred Valdez, Jr. -- Faunal analysis of an early postclassic midden, operation 2032, Colha, Belize / Leslie C. Shaw, Patricia H. Mangan -- Operation 2033 / Patricia A. McAnany -- Off-mound testing programs in northern Belize / Signa Larralde.
• Archeological investigations at the Main Datum Mound, Colha, Belize / Jack D. Eaton -- Test excavations at operation 2036 / Dennis Knepper -- Observations on operation 2036 ceramics / Palma J. Buttles -- Excavations at operations 2037 and 2040 / George H. Michaels and Harry J. Shafer -- The early postclassic at Colha, Belize / George H. Michaels -- A late preclassic household lithic assemblage at Colha / Harry J. Shafer -- A quantitative technological analysis of tranchet flakes from Colha, Belize / George H. Michaels -- The shell artifacts of Colha / Meredith L. Dreiss -- A second preliminary report on archeological molluscan remains from Colha, Belize / Lawrence H. Feldman -- Osteological analysis of the skull pit children / Virginia K. Massey -- Destruction and denouement during the Late-Terminal Classic / Shirley Boteler Mock -- Yucatecan presence in northern Belize as seen in the postclassic ceramics at Colha / Shirley Boeteler Mock.
• Analysis of miscellaneous ceramic artifacts from Colha, Belize / Roberta McGregor -- Noes on eccentric lithics from Colha and northern Belize / Jack D. Eaton, Thomas R. Hester, Fred Valdez, Jr. -- Trace element investigations of chert from northern Belize / Mark H. Tobey, Harry J. Shafer, Marvin W. Rowe -- Archeology at Kichpanha / Eric C. Gibson -- Ceramic and stone artifacts from the northern River Lagoon Site / Palma J. Buttles.

ISBN

1887072004

OCLC

32538267

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