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#20–Medium Circular Biface Rectangular Kidder 1947:5 Uaxactun, Guatemala General Utility Biface, Standard Form, Re-Used Coe 159:11 Piedras Negras, Guatemala Rectangular Chopper Willey et al. 1965:Fig.271 Belize Valley, Belize Chopper pounder Willey 1972:Fig.139 Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala Chopper pounder Shafer and Hester 1983:233 Colhá, Belize Battered biface round ended, parallel-sided Aldenderfer 1991:128 Petén Lakes Region, Guatemala biface oval or "circular" Ricketson and Ricketson 1937:186 Uaxactun, Guatemala Turtle-backed, flint object Ricketson and Ricketson 1937:186 Uaxactun, Guatemala Pecking stones Hammond 1975:336 Northern Belize Chopper or Adze Andreson 1976:162 Northern Belize Fine bifacial scraper Large Oval Biface, medial Shafer and Hester 1983:221 Colhá, Belize fragment Shafer and Hester 1983:229 Colhá, Belize Biface Pick Shafer and Hester 1983:229 Colhá, Belize Biface Celt, broken Fowler 1987:8 El Mirador, Guatemala Recycled large oval biface Mitchum 1986:109 Cerros, Belize Hammerstone Mitchum 1986:109 Cerros, Belize Bifacial Scraper #21–Medium Circular Uniface Kidder 1947:7 Uaxactun, Guatemala Scraper, Turtleback #22–Small Celt Biface Willey 1972:172 Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala Round-based knives Willey 1972:174 Stemless straight-based Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala projectile points or knife Sievert 1992:126 Chichén Itzá, Mexico Dzibilchaltún, Becán and Lanceolate Projectiles Rovner and Lewenstein 1997:75 Chicanná, Mexico Oval Biface Point Table 5.1 continued. 152
#23--Small Side-Notched Celt Biface Sheets 1991:170 Chichén Itzá, Mexico Lanceolate Biface #24–Small Side-Notched Celt Uniface Dzibilchaltún, Becán and Rovner and Lewenstein 1997:77 Chicanná, Mexico Side Notched Point-on-Blade #25–Small Corner-Notched Biface Pendergast 1971:66 Altun Ha, Belize Biface Corner Notched Blade Sheets 1991:172 Chichén Itzá, Mexico Corner-Notched Biface Sievert 1992:121 Chichén Itzá, Mexico Corner-Notched Projectiles #26–Small Fishtail Biface Willey 1972:163 Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala Fishtailed Point #27–Small Stemmed Uniface Hester and Shafer 1983:194 Colhá, Belize Dzibilchaltún, Becán and Stemmed Blade Point Rovner and Lewenstein 1997:30 Chicanná, Mexico Point on Blade, Unifacial #28–Small Laurel Leaf Biface Coe 1959:12 Piedras Negras, Guatemala Unstemmed Projectile Points Stemless, Straight-Based, or Willey 1972:172 Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala Bipointed Laurel Leaf Bladed Dzibilchaltún, Becán and Rovner and Lewenstein 1997:31 Chicanná, Mexico Dzibilchaltún, Becán and Lanceolate Biface Point Rovner and Lewenstein 1997:31 Chicanná, Mexico Ovate Biface Point #29–Small Side-Notched Laurel Leaf Biface Proskouriakoff 1962:36 Mayapan, Mexico Andreson 1976:164 Northern Belize Shafer et al. 1991:83 El Pozito, Belize Arrow Point Table 5.1 continued. 153 Side-Notched Round- and Straight-Based Arrowheads Side-Notched Arrow Point, Round and Straight-Based Types
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
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Acknowledgements Foremost, I thank
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ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION The Or
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TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES
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5.4.1.1.5: Large laurel leaf biface
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7.2.1: Hypothesis 1……………
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6.2: Examples of possible pressure-
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LIST OF TABLES Chapter 4: Lithic Re
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the royal palace had more access to
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argued that most studies intended t
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The research presented here submits
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flakes of microcrystalline quartz,
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whereby data were recorded. The hyp
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ecause the debate actually concerns
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“technological-resource realm”
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and another chert production locale
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activities may in turn have given r
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Most of these studies are somewhat
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consequence of this perspective is
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study is but one more building bloc
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avoids the problem of how to charac
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and probably did, have multiple occ
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for them, but also the status of wh
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which represents nondiscursive prac
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ideology, hegemony, and similar con
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can overlap through religious and s
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the codification of belief implies
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[A] relatively autonomous and struc
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materialize” (2000:140; my emphas
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itualized production should not be
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commonplace (cf. Childs 1998). Ritu
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[R]ituals employed during manufactu
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Another Aztec example indicates tha
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period documents, charters other fo
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Although this passage describes a s
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materials, such as the central Pet
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emergent craft ideologies, and an o
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not to say that production, even ri
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Pennsylvania that yielded an import
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information from new excavations is
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interpretation, are mentioned on Ea
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e interpreted as being structurally
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of his father, if we can consider t
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Figure 3.1: Teotihuacan-style mount
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Figure 3.3: Column altar Cache R-5-
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the city. Since the ceramic chronol
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some residential groups feature mor
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from the seat of power by many diff
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microcrystalline quartzes were rese
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eceived these scores from moderate
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Figure 3.4: Two examples of hammers
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used, they probably had a lesser ex
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typology chapters of this study, bu
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degree to which lithic production w
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Furthermore, general patterns of pr
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previously (see Chapter 5). A typol
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and between nodules, which were sel
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of these materials are nodular flin
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Page 130 and 131: Table 4.4: The total counts and wei
Page 132 and 133: Table 4.5 continued. 116
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Page 140 and 141: According to the three spatial grou
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Page 146 and 147: quartz eccentrics from the two site
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Page 162 and 163: primary technological trait, such a
Page 164 and 165: #1-Large Celt Biface, Thin Kidder 1
Page 166 and 167: #7-Large, Stemmed Biface Hester 198
Page 170 and 171: #30-Small Stemmed Biface Ricketson
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Page 176 and 177: Figure 5.3.2: Examples of thick cel
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5.6.3: Notching Flakes: Indirect Pe
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Figure 5.13: Evidence for the reduc
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5.6.7: Resharpening, Rejuvenation,
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CHAPTER 6 TYPOLOGY OF OBSIDIAN ARTI
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Figure 6.1: Exhausted obsidian blad
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Exhausted cylindrical cores are fou
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Figure 6.2: Examples of possible pr
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face of the core. Clark and Bryant
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Figure 6.5: Percussion flakes remov
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Figure 6.7: Distal rejuvenation bla
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section, and then were prepared and
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Figure 6.9: Obsidian eccentrics tha
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Figure 6.11: Second-series pressure
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lade-core platforms at Piedras Negr
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Figure 6.13.1: Platform rejuvenatio
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termination was used as a platform
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Figure 6.16: Crested blade from Pie
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Figure 6.18: Distal rejuvenation fl
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this technique is on transforming t
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6.3.2: Some Implications of Single-
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differentiation in others. This is
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Figure 6.22: Cores notched by press
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Figure 6.24: Completely-bifaced fla
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specific types of debitage, only re
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for cylindrical cores. The edges of
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The debitage from the production of
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is understood to be the site core.
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Figure 7.2: Map of the acropolis at
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Figure 7.3: Map of Piedras Negras d
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inhabited up to the Kumche phase, a
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264
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area of the city. PN23 also appears
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The third and final spatial groupin
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270
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historical connection to previous i
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any other residential group at Pied
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Phase Cutting Edge to Mass Ratio Av
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An analysis of CE:M ratios and blad
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Site Op Phase Artifact Type Modific
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number of different ways. According
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It is true, however, that the major
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Site Operation Phase Area Non- prod
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Obsidian-Eccentric Types Yaxche Cha
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obsidian eccentrics, a likely scena
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debitage had a symbolic and economi
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anywhere from one to twenty years a
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Figure 7.11: Column altar Cache R-5
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etween the two samples of obsidian
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indicates they may have been associ
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Figure 7.15: Obsidian eccentrics in
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304
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although in a diminished quantity,
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anthropomorphized or characterized
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circumscribed, especially consideri
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Figures 7.20: Obsidian biface eccen
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as a potpourri of symbols and reduc
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continued, although in a minor way
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Figure 7.24: Refit of flake and bif
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tomb (Burial 10) and the tomb of Ru
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ut some of them (N=34) were late-st
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8.1: SUMMARY OF TEST RESULTS CHAPTE
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obsidian technologies differed from
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organization at the end of the Yaxc
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The symbolic nature of chipped-ston
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previously unrecognized patterns of
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conversion of symbolic capital may
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cache name contains the name of the
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Aldenderfer, Mark S. 1
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Comaroff, Jean, and John Comaroff 1
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Fedick, Scott 1991 Chert Tool Produ
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Golden, Charles 1998 PN 11: Excavac
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1991 Maya Stone Tools: Selected Pap
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Hruby, Zachary X., Fred Nelson, and
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Kovacevich, Brigitte 2003 Ritual, C
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1992a Resources, Specialization, an
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Nelson, Fred W, Jr. 1988 Trace Elem
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Scholes, France V. and Ralph L. Roy
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Spielmann, Katherine A. 1998 Ritual
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Tozzer, Alfred M. 1941 Landa’s Re
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