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Possible Social Factors in the Exchange System of the Prehistoric Maya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Barbara Voorhies
Barbara Voorhies*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Abstract

Previous discussions of the exchange system of the prehistoric Maya have been based on the assumption that their uniform environment prevented inter-group exchange of local resources. The validity of this assumption is questioned and the stability of primitive exchange systems is examined.

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American Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 486 - 489
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1973

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