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.
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