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Two Roads Diverged: A Brief Comment on “Lowland Maya Archaeology at the Crossroads”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Norman Hammond*
Affiliation:
Archaeology Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903

Abstract

Some points raised by Joyce Marcus's survey of lowland Maya archaeology require further discussion.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1984

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