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The Dating of Teotihuacan Contact at Altun Ha: The New Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

D. C. Pring
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Abstract

Pendergast's assertion that a Teotihuacan cache at Altun Ha, Belize, should be dated to the earliest part of the Protoclassic period is questioned in the light of recent findings of the ceramics of that period. The new evidence also tends to confirm the belief that the Floral Park ceramic complex coexisted with and did not totally displace the Chicanel phase.

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American Antiquity , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 1977 , pp. 626 - 628
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1977

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