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A Recently Discovered Amber Source near Totolapa, Chiapas, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Douglas Donne Bryant
Douglas Donne Bryant*
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Abstract

A second amber source has been discovered in Chiapas, which is important for considerations of prehistoric exchange. Source analysis is discussed as a possible means of distinguishing prehistoric amber from the two known sources.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 354 - 357
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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