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Lowland Maya Subsistence: Notes from Ethnohistory and Ethnography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ruben E. Reina  and
Robert M. Hill II
Ruben E. Reina
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 33rd and Spruce Sts, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Robert M. Hill II
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 33rd and Spruce Sts, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

Recent ethnohistorical investigations by the authors as part of a larger research effort focusing on Highland Maya ethnohistory have produced information on settlement patterns and subsistence activities for the Maya of the Alta Verapaz region. The environmentally transitional nature of this area—from tropical highlands to lowlands—makes this information of potential interest to Mayanists concerned with lowland civilization. Parallel subsistence activities known ethnographically from the present-day Itza of the Peten strengthens the applicability of this ethnohistorical information.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 1980 , pp. 74 - 79
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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