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Response to Miksicek, Elsesser, Wuebber, Bruhns, and Hammond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ruben E. Reina  and
Robert M. Hill, II
Ruben E. Reina
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Robert M. Hill, II
Affiliation:
Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78285
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Abstract

A recent statement by the five authors purports to demonstrate that the fruit we previously identified as ramón was really achiote. This response points out several weaknesses in the five authors' ethnohistorical methodology that makes their identification far less secure. The original aim of our paper is restated to turn discussion away from the minor point of ramón versus achiote.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 128 - 131
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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