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Dating the Ulua Polychrome Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jeremiah F. Epstein
Jeremiah F. Epstein*
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University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
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Abstract

Distinctive polychromes from the Ulua valley, northwestern Honduras, formerly dated from possibly Early Classic to the conquest, are restricted to Late Classic. Ulua wares have Late Classic associations at Copan and other sites. A newly demonstrated Early Classic occupation of the Ulua valley is not found at the major polychrome sites. Plumbate is not associated with the Ulua complex and in northeastern Honduras it first appears in the Cocal horizon overlying the Late Classic Selin horizon in which Ulua pottery occurs.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , July 1959, pp. 125 - 129
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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