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Con Manos Arriba: Tayasal and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Arlen F. Chase
Arlen F. Chase*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

Controversy exists over the geographic placement of the ethnohistoric Itza capital called "Tayasal." At the heart of this dispute are the differences and limitations inherent in the use of either archaeological or ethnohistoric data to solve the problem. As presently understood, archaeological data do not support the traditional placement of Tayasal in Lake Peten-Itza.

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American Antiquity , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 167 - 171
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1982

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