By David Scott, Pieter Meyers
Archaeometry is the applying of clinical tools and analyses to the learn of tradition in its archaeological context. Garnered from a convention known as to review the cloth tradition from North and South the United States, the book's twenty essays on a wide variety of matters symbolize the entire scope of research during this box. They contain papers through Ron L. Bishop at the compositional research of pre-Columbian pottery from the Maya area, Heather Lechtman at the fabrics technology of fabric tradition from the Andes, and J. Michael Elam and others on resource identity and hydration courting of obsidian artifacts.
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Sites and survey areas that are subjects of intensive sampling o by the Maya Ceramics Project. Sites subject to extensive sam p l i n g Z o n e subject to extensive s a m p l i n g Pacific Coastal Guatemala and the majority of the Guatemalan highland sites have been omitted. Area of the Palenque survey is shown in large shaded area. ,-- - _. A T E M A L A' _- �:" , ; ' - '. \\. _•/�. • G U km I7 E L S A L\! , Rands 1 952). Today, the ancient Maya are viewed as human, seeking political advantage through trade and warfare, propitiation before the gods through bloodletting and human sacrifice, and even having a high time through rectal injec tions of fermented beverages.
II1 <>o6 21 NCIl •• 2 <>o6 21 . ii! l' '-l' -3 -2 -1 0 1 -4 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 Canonical variable 1 rp, b. Stubby Balunle Jar 2 : FIGURE Palenque Palenque Planeque 3 West 1 West West 3 Easl 1 Easl 2 Discriminant ' 2 ' 3 I 4 LI 5 6 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Canonical variable 1 discriminant analysis plot of compositional groups representing local Palenque analysis plots. A vertical dashed ceramic production and a group with a western Low Sierra composition are shown line has been added to call atten to be separable from groups with site proveniences east or west of Palenque having tion to the left-right differences.
Spatial, temporal, formal, stylistic) iographic-compositional regions of become more secure, even when sample sizes of chemically analyzed specimens lie the Palenque survey. Sites identi below a number of specimens that might be desirable for more rigorous statistical fied along the Rio Michol are evaluation. Interpretations based on principals of best fit or correlational models those glossed as "West " in text. unfortunately remain at a descriptive level of usage (Sebastian and Judge 1 988:4-6) Similarly, those identified along and, in themselves, do not tell us anything about the people responsible for creating the Rio Chacamax are designated the patterns we observe.