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This dataset complements the book The Organization of Agricultural Production at a Classic Maya Center: Settlement Patterns in the Palenque Region, Chiapas, Mexico by Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo (available from the University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Publications). It consists of detailed data on artifacts recovered in the excavations carried out in Palenque's sustaining area. The study of which these excavations were a part is discussed in the printed volume, whose contents are as follows:
Questions or comments about this dataset or the Latin American Archaeology Database can be directed to laad@pitt.edu via email. Users of the dataset are requested to credit the source of the information with bibliographic references to both the printed volume and the on-line dataset, as follows:
Liendo Stuardo, Rodrigo (2002a) The Organization of Agricultural Production at a Classic Maya Center: Settlement Patterns in the Palenque Region, Chiapas, Mexico. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, and Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh.
Liendo Stuardo, Rodrigo (2002b) Agricultural Production at Palenque Dataset. Latin American Archaeology Database, University of Pittsburgh. <URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~laad/>
| These data files are organized in the form of ASCII text files that can be read directly or easily imported to an application program such as a database manager or statistics package. |
| Ceramics from the excavations. |
| Obsidian from the excavations. |
| Flint and chert from the excavations. |