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Maya Civilization Bibliography

Bibliographic References from Hanks through Sabloff

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Mural at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico

Mural at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico

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Hanks, William F. 1992. The language of the Canek manuscript. Ancient Mesoamerica 3269-279.

Hassig, Ross. 1981. The famine of One Rabbit: Ecological causes and social conseqences of a pre-columbian calamity. Journal of Archaeological Research 37(2):172-182.

Hayden, Brian and Aubrey Cannon. 1983. Where the garbage goes: refuse disposal in the Maya Highlands. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 2117-163.

Healy, Paul F. 1992. The ancient Maya ballcourt at Pacbitun, Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica 3229-239.

Hodell, David A., Rhonda L. Quinn, Mark Brenner, and George Kamenov. 2004. Spatial variatio of strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) in the Maya region: A tool for tracking ancient human migration. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(5):

Houston, Stephen D. 2001. Decorous bodies and disordered passions: representations of emotion among the Classic Maya. World Archaeology 33(2):206-219.

Houston, Stephen D. 1996. Symbolic sweatbaths of the Maya: Architectural meaning in the Cross Group at Palenque, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 7(2):132-151.

Inomata, Takeshi, et al. 2001. In the palace of the fallen king: The Royal Residential Complex at Aguateca, Guatemala. Journal of Field Archaeology 28(3/4):287-306.

Jacob, John S. 1995. Ancient Maya wetland agricultural fields in Cobweb swamp, Belize: Construction, chronology, and function. Journal of Field Archaeology 22(2):175-190.

Johnston, Kevin J. 2003. The intensification of pre-industrial cereal agriculture in the tropics: Boserup, cultivation lengthening, and the Classic Maya. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22(2):126-161.

Jones, Lindsay 1997. Conquests of the imagination: Maya-Mexican polarity and the story of Chichen Itza. American Anthropologist 99(2):275-290.

LeCount, Lisa J. 2001. Like water for chocolate: Feasting and political ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize. American Anthropologist 103(4):935-953.

Levi, Laura J. 2002. An Institutional Perspective on Prehispanic Maya Residential Variation: Settlement and Community at San Estevan, Belize . Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21(2):120-141.

MacKinnon, J. J. and Susan M. Kepecs. 1989 Prehispanic saltmaking in Belize: New evidence. American Antiquity 54(3):522-533.

MacKinnon, J. J. and Emily M. May. 1990. Small-scale Maya lime making in Belize. Ancient Mesoamerica 1(2):197-203.

Mallory, John K. 1986. "Workshops" and "specialized production" in the productionof Maya chert tools: a response to Shafer and Hester. American Antiquity 51152-158.

Manahan, T. K. 2004. The Way Things Fall Apart: Social organization and the Classic Maya collapse of Copan. Ancient Mesoamerica 15107-126.

Marcus, Joyce 2003. Recent Advances in Maya Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 11(2):71-148.

Marcus, Joyce 1973. Territorial organization of the Lowland Classic Maya. Science 180(4089):911-916.

McVicker, Donald. 1985. The "Mayanized" Mexicans. American Antiquity 50(1):82-101.

Moholy-Nagy, Hattula. 1995. Shells and society at Tikal, Guatemala. Expedition 37(2):3-12.

Morehart, Christopher T., et al. 2004 Ancient textile remains from Barton Creek Cave, Cayo district, Belize. Mexicon 2650-56.

Mora-Marin, David F. 2008 Full phonetic complementation, semantic classifiers, and semantic determinatives in ancient Mayan hieroglyphic writing. Ancient Mesoamerica 19:195–213.

Pohl, Mary D. and et al. 1996. Early agriculture in the Maya lowlands. Latin American Antiquity 7(4):355-372.

Puleston, Dennis E. 1977. The art and archaeology of hydraulic agriculture in the Maya lowlands. In Social Process in Maya Prehistory. Norman Hammond, ed. Pp. 449-467. New York: Academic Press.

Rice, Prudence M. 2009 Late Classic Maya Pottery Production: Review and Synthesis. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 16:117–156.

Rice, Prudence M. 1999. Rethinking Classic lowland Maya pottery censers. Ancient Mesoamerica 1025-50.

Sabloff, Jeremy A. 1996. Settlement patterns and community organization in the Maya lowlands. Expedition 38(1):3-13.

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