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Another Pinch of Salt: A Comment on Mackinnon and Kepecs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joyce Marcus
Joyce Marcus*
Affiliation:
Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
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Abstract

This comment corrects statements attributed to me by MacKinnon and Kepecs (1989). What I said was that the rise of the Maya state could not be explained by a massive need for salt imported from great distances, not because salt was archaeologically invisible, but because I was skeptical about any monocausal explanation; furthermore, I did not see that such a massive salt need even existed during the period of state formation.

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Résumé

El presente comentario corrige algunas afirmaciones que MacKinnon y Kepecs (1989) me han atribuido. Lo que dije fue que el desarrollo del estado maya no podía ser explicado a través de una necesidad masiva de sal importada desde grandes distancias, no porque la sal no fuera visible arqueológicamente, sino porque soy escéptica respecto a cualquier explicación monocausal; además, no veía que semejante necesidad masiva hubiera existido durante el período de formación del estado.

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American Antiquity , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 526 - 527
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1991

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