LAS RUINAS DE ARENAL: Preliminary report on a subregional major center in the western Belize Valley (1991–1992 excavations)

Jennifer T. Taschek; Joseph W. Ball

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Las Ruinas de Arenal is a small “major” Lowland Maya center located at the southwest edge of the upper or western Belize Valley. This paper presents a preliminary description of Las Ruinas in formal, spatial, and temporal terms and reports the results of two short seasons of archaeological investigations carried out there in 1991 and 1992. Some aspects of the site's likely cultural, historical, and sociopolitical significance also are discussed.

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