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Lowland Maya Archaeology at the Crossroads

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joyce Marcus
Joyce Marcus*
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Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Abstract

The Lowland Maya region has seen an enormous increase of new data over the last decade, but our progress is hampered by a tendency for cyclic return to previous theoretical positions. This results from several factors: too short a view of the discipline's history; a lack of familiarity with the rest of Mesoamerica; a lack of collaboration among archaeologists, ethnohistorians, and epigraphers; and a tendency to view alternative methodologies as competing rather than complementary. This paper synthesizes some of the major new discoveries and suggests where progress might be made if differing approaches were used in concert rather than in isolation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , July 1983 , pp. 454 - 488
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1983

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