- 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
PEABODY MUSEUM MEMOIRS
Peabody Museum Memoirs 14
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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