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A Southern Maya-Peten Pottery Correlation1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

John M. Longyear III
John M. Longyear III*
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum Cambridge, Massachusetts
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This paper represents an attempt to correlate, as far as is now possible, the ceramic sequence of the southern Maya area with that established in the Guatemalan Peten. The southern Maya region includes the Republic of El Salvador from its western border east to the lower Lempa River and the Republic of Honduras from its western border east to an arbitrary line slightly beyond the Ulua River and Lake Yojoa. Generally speaking, there have been defined in this region two principal ceramic phases, one stratigraphically below the other. The lower phase contains monochrome and bichrome wares and handmodeled figurines. The upper horizon consists of the polchrome pottery typical of the region, plus mould-made figurines and whistles.

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American Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , April 1942, pp. 389 - 396
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1942

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Footnotes

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Read before a regional meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Philadelphia, December 27, 1940.

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