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A Unique Maya Shrine Site on the Mountain Pine Ridge of British Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William R. Bullard Jr.
William R. Bullard Jr.*
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Abstract

A small ruin of presumed ancient Maya origin is described. This ruin is the only certain prehistoric structure discovered on the Mountain Pine Ridge of British Honduras, and it is associated with a natural granite outcrop of monumental appearance in such a way as to suggest that the two formed a shrine of a type not previously reported in Lowland Maya archaeology.

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American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 98 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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References

Thompson, J. E. S. 1938 Reconnaissance and Excavation in British Honduras. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Year Book No. 37, Annual Report of the Division of Historical Research, pp. 16–7. Washington.Google Scholar