Occupied continuously for 1,500 years, Tikal was the most important demographic, economic, administrative, and ritual center of its region. The collection of materials recovered at Tikal is the largest and most diverse known from the Lowlands.
This book provides a major body of primary data. The artifacts, represented by such raw materials as chert and shell are classified by type, number, condition, possible ancient use, form, material, size, and such secondary modifications as decoration and reworking, as well as by spatial distribution, occurrence in the various types of structure groups, recovery context, and date. The same format, with the exception of typology, is used for unworked materials such as mineral pigments and vertebrate remains.
While few artifact reports go beyond a catalog of objects organized by type or raw material, this report puts the materials into their past cultural contexts and thus is of interest to a wide range of scholars.
Content of this book's CD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/document/376593.
University Museum Monograph, 118
- ISBN10 1322511462
- ISBN13 9781322511467
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 29 December 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
- Format eBook
- Pages 289
- Language English