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Long-Distance Exchange among the Maya: A Comment on Marcus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Anthony P. Andrews
Anthony P. Andrews*
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New College of USF, Sarasota, FL 33580
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Abstract

With good reason, several scholars have challenged the exaltation of long-distance trade as a prime mover in the rise of civilization. However, in dismissing the economic importance of long-distance exchange in the development of Maya civilization, Marcus (1983) has moved too far in the opposite direction.

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American Antiquity , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , October 1984, pp. 826 - 828
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1984

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