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Pre-Columbian Wood-cutting Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. Ogden Outwater Jr.
J. Ogden Outwater Jr.*
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University of Vermont Burlington, Vt.
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The problem of the technique whereby the Maya, Aztec, and other peoples accomplished the cutting of wood in the vast quantities needed for construction, and particularly for lime burning has long been a matter of speculation (Morris, Chariot, and Morris 1931). Wood cutting might have required comparatively little effort if metal tools had'been available, but this was apparently not the case.

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , April 1957 , pp. 410 - 411
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1957

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Morris, E. H., Charlot, Jean, and Morris, A. A. 1931 The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza, Yucatan. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication 406. Washington.Google Scholar
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