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The Theme Is Variation: Recent Publications on the Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica

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PRECLASSIC MAYA POTTERY AT CUELLO, BELIZE. By KOSAKOWSKY LAURA J. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987. Pp. 101. $29.95.)

AN ANALYSIS OF CLASSIC LOWLAND MAYA BURIALS. By WELSH W. B. M. British Archaeological Reports, International Series no. 409. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1988. Pp. 377.)

ARCHAEOLOGY AT CERROS, BELIZE, CENTRAL AMERICA: VOLUME II, THE ARTIFACTS. By GARBER JAMES F. (Dallas, Tex.: Southern Methodist University Press, 1989. Pp. 154. $22.50.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Wendy Ashmore*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
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Copyright © 1993 by Latin American Research Review

References

Notes

1. Gordon R. Willey and Jeremy A. Sabloff, A History of American Archaeology, 3d ed. (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, in press); American Archaeology Past and Future, edited by David J. Meltzer, Don D. Fowler, and Jeremy A. Sabloff (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986); Bruce G. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); K. Paddayya, The New Archaeology and Aftermath: A View from Outside the Anglo-American World (Pune, India: Ravish, 1990); and Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past, edited by Robert W. Preucel (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1991).

2. Paddayya, New Archaeology and Aftermath.

3. Robert C. Dunnell, “Five Decades of American Archaeology,” in American Archaeology Past and Future, 23–49.

4. Richard A. Diehl, “Current Directions and Perspectives in Mesoamerican Cognitive Archaeology,” LARR 19, no. 2 (1984):171–81.

5. Jane H. Kelley and Marsha P. Hanen, Archaeology and the Methodology of Science (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988); and Preucel, Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies.

6. Ian Hodder, “Post-Modernism, Post-Structuralism, and Post-Processual Archaeology,” in The Meaning of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression, edited by Ian Hodder (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989), 64–78.

7. Diehl, “Current Directions and Perspectives,” LARR.

8. Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence, edited by T. Patrick Culbert (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

9. E. Wyllys Andrews V and Norman Hammond, “Redefinition of the Swasey Phase at Cuello, Belize,” American Antiquity 55 (1990):570–84.

10. Ian Hodder, Reading the Past, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); Michael D. Coe, “Ideology of the Maya Tomb,” in Maya Iconography, edited by Elizabeth P. Benson and Gillett G. Griffin (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988), 222–35; and Wendy Ashmore, “Site-Planning Principles and Concepts of Directionality among the Ancient Maya,” Latin American Antiquity 2 (1991):199–226.

11. Similar arguments are raised by Olivier de Montmollin in The Archaeology of Political Structure: Settlement Analysis in a Classic Maya Polity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

12. Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life, translated by Dennis Tedlock (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990).

13. Stephen D. Houston, “Archaeology and Maya Writing,” Journal of World Prehistory 3 (1989):1–32.

14. Jeremy A. Sabloff, The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya (New York: Scientific American Library, 1990).