Pre-Columbian Art Reseach Institute Monograph 7 Studies in the Archaeology of Caracol, Belize

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1994 Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute (San Francisco, California), 6 3/4 x 10 inches tall spiral bound in covers printed in blue with clear protective overlay, copiously illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, maps and graphs, bibliography, vi, 193 pp. Very faint smoky odor. Minor rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP47~ [1.5P] A series of reports from the Caracol Archaeological Project covering a decade of archaeological research at Caracol, an ancient Maya site that was rediscovered in 1937 and has become a major resource in the interpretation and understanding of the ancient Maya. Caracol is one of the largest Classic period Maya sites in the southern Maya Lowlands, home to over 100,000 people at its height between AD 600 and 700. Among the 13 reports in this volume: Details in the Archaeology of Caracol; An Ecological Perspective; Some Soils Common to Caracol and Their Significance to Ancient Agriculture and Land Use; Evaluation of the Potential for Plant Microfossil Recovery; Emergence of an Architectural Style on Caana; The Conchita Causeway Settlement Subprogram; The Chultuns of Caracol; The Caves of Caracol; Epigraphic Research; Human Osteology, Pathology and Demography in Burials at Caracol; Archaeological Mollusca and Shell Ornaments; Small Chert Tools and Related Debitage; A Contextual Approach to the Ceramics of Caracol. N° de ref. del artículo SP47-0332-13405

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