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The Melhado Site, a House Mound Group in British Honduras*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gordon R. Willey  and
William R. Bullard Jr.
Gordon R. Willey
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum Cambridge, Mass
William R. Bullard Jr.
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum Cambridge, Mass
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The Melhado site is near the town of El Cayo, in the Cayo District of west central British Honduras. This region forms a part of the eastern edge of the Peten forests. Its limestone hills and ridges are covered by a dense jungle growth, including such typical trees as the mahogany, sapodilla, Spanish cedar, and cahune palm. Rainfall is heavy, amounting to 50 to 70 inches a year at El Cayo, most of it falling in the rainy season from June to October.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , July 1956 , pp. 29 - 44
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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This paper was presented in modified form at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Tucson, Arizona, December, 1953.

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