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Modern Chultun Construction in Western Campeche, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ray T. Matheny
Ray T. Matheny*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brigham Young University
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Abstract

Test excavations at Aguacatal, located on the Xicalango peninsula, western Campeche, revealed chultuns (water cisterns) of the Late Classic period. Modern chultun construction by Chontal Indians, as late as the 1940's, followed the Late Classic period methods and style. First hand descriptions of the construction and use of chultuns by the Chontol is an aid in archaeological interpretation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , October 1971 , pp. 473 - 475
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1971

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