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Figure 6. Map of the Uapala Ceramic Sphere Boundaries (after
Robinson 1988, in Goralski 2008:1992).
and likely languages (Lenca) east
of the Rio Lempa, in El Salvador
and Honduras (the traditional
southeast periphery), and is differentiated
from the earlier Middle
Preclassic ‘Provedencia and Miraflores
spheres’ of Maya-speaking
Mesoamerica proper (western El
Salvador and southwest Guatemala
— the Usulután ‘heartland’)
[Cagnato, 2008: 54; Goralski,
2008: 91].
Goralski [2008: 71] states
that Usulután types throughout
Honduras are known strictly from
elite contexts, which has traditio-
nally been interpreted as evidence
for the importation of Usulután
into the country (as a status or
prestige good) rather than local
production/emulation. However,
we now know that not only was
most of the Usulután produced
locally but also that many of the
imported Usulután wares were
produced at other sites within Honduras—with
only trace amounts of
El Salvadorian-produced wares
[Cognato, 2008; Goralski, 2008:
255]. For example, at the site of El
Guayabal in the Paraíso Valley of
Honduras, researchers have dis-
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