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The Site of Noh K'uh, Chiapas, Mexico: A Late Preclassic Settlement in the Mensäbäk Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2019

Santiago Juarez ,
Sebastián Salgado-Flores  and
Christopher Hernández
Santiago Juarez*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA
Sebastián Salgado-Flores
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
Christopher Hernández
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA
*
(sjuarez@colgate.edu, corresponding author)
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Abstract

In this report we introduce the site of Noh K'uh, a Late Preclassic (400 BC–AD 250) community in the western frontier of the Maya Lowlands. This new body of data contributes to the study of how complex societies emerged both within the Usumacinta River region and the Maya area overall.

En este informe se presenta el sitio de Noh K'uh, una comunidad del Preclásico tardío (400 aC-250 dC), localizado en la frontera occidental de las tierras bajas mayas. Ofrecemos nuevos datos para el estudio de sociedades complejas tanto en la región del río Usumacinta como en el área maya en general.

Keywords

Late PreclassicNoh K'uhsettlementPreclásico tardíoNoh K'uhasentamiento
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Report
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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 211 - 217
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Copyright © 2019 by the Society for American Archaeology 

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