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Maya Stone-Tool Craft Specialization and Production at Colha, Belize: Reply to Mallory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Harry J. Shafer  and
Thomas R. Hester
Harry J. Shafer
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
Thomas R. Hester
Affiliation:
Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX 78285
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Abstract

The definition and existence of specialized chert tool workshops and workshop deposits at Colha, Belize are addressed in this reply. Density estimates are provided for workshop deposits along with revised production estimates for the Late Preclassic Period. A pattern is beginning to emerge in the Maya lowlands with regards to communities of craft specialists; they appear to have been in settlements surrounding the larger centers, not in the major centers themselves.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , January 1986 , pp. 158 - 166
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1986

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