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Mapping La Milpa: a Maya city in northwestern Belize

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gair Tourtellot III ,
Amanda Clarke  and
Norman Hammond
Gair Tourtellot III
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA
Amanda Clarke
Affiliation:
York Archaeological Trust, 1 Pavement, York YO1 2NA UK
Norman Hammond
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA
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The first major season of field operations at this major Lowland Maya site, located on the eastern edge of the Classic Maya core area, has revealed a great deal of information about the layout of the site and also demonstrated that its history was a long one.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 254 , March 1993 , pp. 96 - 108
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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