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A Statistical Examination of Settlement Patterns at Tikal, Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jeanne E. Arnold  and
Anabel Ford
Jeanne E. Arnold
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Anabel Ford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Abstract

The widely applied concentric zonation model for Classic period Maya centers, which specifies that high-ranking persons lived closer to the central civic-ceremonial precinct than low-ranking persons, is tested for the site of Tikal. Our method is to identify residential units from the Carr and Hazard (1961) Tikal maps and to compute labor investment costs of construction of residential units from variables derived exclusively from the cartographic data. Our finding is that the Tikal data do not substantiate the concentric zonation model.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , October 1980 , pp. 713 - 726
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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