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The Use of Locational Analysis at Chisalin, Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Charles F. Ward III
Charles F. Ward III*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 33rd and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Abstract

A critique of the methods of locational analysis used by Carmack and Weeks (1981) at the Maya site of Chisalin, Guatemala is presented. The applicability of the “nearest neighbor” statistic to this densely occupied hilltop site is questioned, as is its use to discriminate architectural groups.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 132 - 135
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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