Technological Choice andRaw MaterialAvailability: Lithic Production Implements in Western Belize Rachel A. Horowitz Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA ABSTRACT In lithic studies, much attention is devoted to analyses of production processes and nished tools while little attention is paid to production implements.
'Producer-Consumer' Revisited: A Postclassic View of Stone Tool Production from Santa Rita Corozal, Belize. A Paper Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin Authors: Marc D. Marino1, Lucas R. Martindale Johnson2, and Nathan J. Meissner3 1 – University of Central Florida, 2 – University of Florida, 3 – Southern Illinois …
PERSPECTIVE FROM PULLTROUSER SWAMP, BELIZE Patricia A. McAnany ... McAnanyl MAYA STONE-TOOL PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE 333 Shafer and Hester; and implicitly, on the basis of the small size of Colha in comparison to Copan. Mallory (1986) posits that Colha stone-tool production was for domestic use only, or that the
Nevertheless, in chert-rich areas, such as the upper Belize River valley, limestone bifaces and production debitage are present. To understand their presence, we examine limestone biface production and use at Buenavista del Cayo.
Irish poet William Butler Yeats: I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. The first discovery of petroleum and gas deposits in Belize was made by Belize Natural Energy Ltd. …
Through a study of lithic extraction and production at Callar Creek Quarry, Belize, this article examines the relevance of crafting activities in the minimization of economic …
SPEAReports 2. 1984. Socioeconomic integration of Central American Immigrants in Belize. Stone, M. (1990). "Backabush: settlement on the Belmopan periphery and the challenge to rural development." SPEAReports ( 6), 82-134. Stone, M. 1990. "Report on the Valley of Peace socio-economic survey." Belmopan: Belize Enterprises for Sustained ...
Ancient Maya Obsidian Exchange and Chipped Stone Production at Caobal, Guatemala (K. Aoyama and J. Munson, 2012) ... This small rockshelter, located in the Caves Branch River Valley of central Belize, was primarily used as a burial location by local Maya communities from the Protoclassic to Terminal Classic periods (A.D. 80–950). However ...
Salt works along the Yucatan coasts of Mexico and Belize provide a record of salt production for inland trade during the height of Late Classic Maya civilisation (AD 550–800).
The analysis of the complete Postclassic lithic assemblage from Santa Rita Corozal, including an additional 138 projectile points and associated reduction debris located throughout the site, demonstrates the need to generate new models of stone tool production for the Postclassic Period at this Northern Belizean locale.
Our research at Buenavista del Cayo, Belize (hereafter Buenavista) has caused us to rethink assumptions about raw material preferences for limestone. At Buenavista, we …
Raw Material Selection and Stone Tool Production: Limestone Bifaces in the Mopan Valley, Belize - Volume 30 Issue 1
Raw Material Selection and Stone Tool Production: Limestone Bifaces in the Mopan Valley, Belize Rachel A. Horowitz, Bernadette Cap, Jason Yaeger, Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown and Mark Eli Stone tool producers in the Maya Lowlands had several typesof raw materials from which to choose. Limestone, chert,
On Sunday, October 1st, the Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) and the Florida Stone Crab (Menippe mercenaria) fishing seasons officially open. In the case of the Stone Crab, of which only the claws are harvested, the season will close on June 30, 2024, while the Queen Conch closing season is the same as the Stone Crab's.
DEEP VALLEY ROCKSHELTER, BELIZE W. JAMES STEMP1,GABRIEL D. WROBEL2,JESSICA HALEY3, AND JAIME J. AWE4 Abstract: This paper discusses the technological and microscopic use-wear analyses of ... the possibility that some stone tool production and use may have originally occurred in Deep Valley Rockshelter, but support for this is minimal. INTRODUCTION
In Chan: An Ancient Maya Farming Community, edited by Cynthia Robin, pp. 192–206. University of Florida Press, Gainesville. Heindel, Theresa 2010 A Lithic Deposit found in the East Plaza of the Late Classic Maya Site of Buenavista, Belize and its Effect on Stone Tool Production in Ancient Maya Marketplaces.
Belize Fisheries Department data on stone crabs The Belize Fisheries Department shared that since a season was established, there is an allowable catch quota. According to information shared by Kenneth Esquivel, …
Maya agriculture is currently outperforming alternatives across the Yucatán Peninsula, while changing to incorporate new ideas that fit with its basic commitment to shifting agriculture based on maize as the staple and over 100 minor crops.
The analysis of the complete Postclassic lithic assemblage from Santa Rita Corozal, including an additional 151 projectile points and associated reduction debris located throughout the site, demonstrates the need to generate new models of stone tool production for the Postclassic Period at this Northern Belizean locale.
Additionally, ground stone raw materials tend to be more heterogeneous in composition, compounding the difficulties of provenance research. Consequently, there is a gap in our understanding of ground stone production and exchange compared to more thoroughly studied materials such as obsidian.
This paper examines one such area, the upper Belize River valley (UBRV) of western Belize, focusing on lowland Maya lithic production during the Late to Terminal Classic period (AD 670–890).
Belize has some minerals, but nobody has found a deposit large enough for a commercial operation. I think the only commercial mining that has been done has been for limestone. That being said conch pearls, coral, and jade could be considered local semi-precious stones, but there is a chance if you buy one of those that it actually came from ...
The presence of flaked-stone tools made of limestone is typically attributed to the scarcity of more suitable raw materials. Nevertheless, in chert-rich areas, such as the upper …
Ongoing controversy over the identification of mesoamerican centers as the locus for specialized production of stone tools is addressed by reference to a consumer locality in the …
The definition and existence of specialized chert tool workshops and workshop deposits at Colha, Belize are addressed in this reply. Density estimates are provided for workshop deposits along with revised production estimates for the Late Preclassic Period. A pattern is beginning to emerge in the Maya lowlands with regards to communities of craft specialists; they appear to have …
western Belize features chert-bearing limestones with chert and limestone as the most prevalent local raw materials (Cornec, 2004 ; Figure 1). Limestone, the most prevalent lithic material, was …
In 2006 production was 30.0 million gallons which generated $88.6 million in export revenues. Belize's daily output was about 3000 barrels in 2006 and exported 705,644 barrels of crude. Production increased to 40.1 million gallons …
The ground stone production debitage recovered from Mountains by measuring the amount of magmatic differentiation that excavations at the Tzib Group, a ground stone production site near the magma had undergone before cooling (Figure 3). ... Tibbits, M. A., & Harrison‐Buck, E. (2022). Using X‐ray fluorescence to examine ancient Maya granite ...