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Cover: Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, II: 1. Artifacts. 2. A Reconnaissance of Cancuen. 3. A Brief Reconnaissance of Itzan, from Harvard University PressCover: Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, II: 1. Artifacts. 2. A Reconnaissance of Cancuen. 3. A Brief Reconnaissance of Itzan in PAPERBACK

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Excavations at Seibal, Department of Peten, Guatemala, II: 1. Artifacts. 2. A Reconnaissance of Cancuen. 3. A Brief Reconnaissance of Itzan

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Publication Date: 06/01/1978

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  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Procedural Considerations
    • Typology
    • Contexts
    • Comparative Treatments
  • 1. Pottery Figurines, Figurine-Whistles, and Related Objects
    • General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
    • Preclassic Period Figures
    • Late Classic Figurines and Figurine-Whistles
    • Late Classic Flutes and Whistles
    • Late Classic Figurine Molds
  • 2. Miscellaneous Pottery Objects
    • General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
    • Unperforated Potsherd Disks
    • Perforated Potsherd Disks (Spindle Whorls)
    • Potsherd Disk Fragments
    • Other Variously Perforated or Worked Potsherds
    • Spindle Whorls (Specially Manufactured)
    • Pendants or Weights (Specially Manufactured)
    • Beads
    • Ear Ornaments
    • Flat Stamps
    • Cylinder Seals or Stamps
    • Various Forms
    • Pottery Pellets
    • Masks
    • Effigy Vessels
    • Pestles
    • Pottery Armatures
  • 3. Ground Stone
    • General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
    • Metates
    • Manos
    • Mortars
    • Barkbeaters
    • Rubbing and Pounding Stones
    • Celts
    • Spindle Whorls
    • Vessels
    • Ring-Stones
    • Miscellaneous Nonutilitarian Stones
    • Concretions (Unworked)
    • Mirrors
    • Jadeite Bloodletter
    • Beads and Ornaments
    • Raw Jadeite
    • Sheet Mica
  • 4. Chipped Stone (Flint)
    • General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
    • Choppers or Celts
    • Projectile Points or Knives
    • Scrapers
    • Drills
    • Chisellike Tools
    • Pebble Choppers
    • Cores
    • Rejects, Fragments, and Otherwise
    • Unidentified
    • Scrap (Flakes, Tabular Pieces, and Miscellaneous)
    • Eccentrics
  • 5. Chipped Stone (Obsidian)
    • General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
    • Projectile Points or Knives
    • Scrapers
    • Drills
    • Cores
    • Bladelets
    • Scrap
    • Eccentrics
  • 6. Microscopic Analysis of Chipped Flint and Obsidian [Richard Wilk]
    • Introduction
    • Choppers or Celts
    • Adzes or Planes
    • Chisels or Gouges
    • Projectile Points or Knives
    • Scrapers and Use-Nicked Flakes
    • Comment on Flint Artifacts
    • Obsidian: Generate
    • Projectile Points or Knives
    • Cores
    • Bladelets, Use-nicked
    • Comment on Obsidian Artifacts
  • 7. Notes on the Obsidian Prismatic Blades at Seibal and Altar de Sacrificios [Raymond V. Sidrys]
  • 8. Trace Element Analysis by X-ray Fluorescence of Obsidian Artifacts, from Guatemala and Belize [Fred W. Nelson, Raymond V. Sidrys, and Richard D. Holmes]
    • Introduction
    • Methods
    • Analysis of Data
    • Discussion
  • 9. Shell Artifacts
    • General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
    • Tinklers
    • Beads
    • Adornos
    • Cut or Scored Shell
  • 10. Seibal and the Mollusks of the Usumacinta Valley [Lawrence H. Feldman]
  • 11. Bone and Related Artifacts
    • General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
    • Awls or Punches
    • Pins
    • Tubes
    • Rasps
    • Smoothing Implements
    • Beads
    • Pendants
    • Adornos
    • Cut Animal Bone Scrap
    • Worked Deer Antlers
    • Pierced Animal Teeth
    • Turtle Shells
  • 12. Vertebrate Faunal Remains [Stanley J. Olsen]
    • Introduction
    • Fish
    • Amphibians
    • Reptiles
    • Birds
    • Mammals
    • Taxonomic Vertebrate Faunal List
  • 13. Minor Sculptures and Architectural Elements
    • General, Comparative, and Summary Comments
    • Thin-Stone Heads
    • Full-Round Life Forms
    • Altar or Table Legs
    • Yokes (?)
    • Architectural Elements
  • 14. Plaster and Other Materials
    • Plaster Samples
    • Charred Vegetal Substance
  • Bibliography

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