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Two Roads Diverged: A Brief Comment on “Lowland Maya Archaeology at the Crossroads”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Norman Hammond
Norman Hammond*
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Archaeology Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
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Abstract

Some points raised by Joyce Marcus's survey of lowland Maya archaeology require further discussion.

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American Antiquity , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , October 1984 , pp. 821 - 826
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1984

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