| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Maya studies |
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Maya studies.
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| Contents |
Economies of Maya salt -- Discovery and mapping underwater -- Briquetage and the technology of salt production -- The infrastructure of salt production: wooden architecture -- Wood selection for the salt kitchens -- Labor, production, and identity -- Marketing salt, salted fish, cacao, and marine products -- Salt: a mover and shaker in ancient Maya society |
| Summary |
This book includes evaluation of the economics of salt production and trade from analyses of the spatial patterning of wooden buildings and associated artifacts that were mapped on the sea floor at the Paynes Creek Salt Works. The book describes the discovery and mapping of the wooden architecture as well as the associated pottery and other artifacts on the surface and embedded in the sea floor during a systematic search for salt production in a large, salt-water lagoon system, Punta Ycacos Lagoon, in southern Belize |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2019) |
| Subject |
Salt industry and trade -- Belize
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Mayas -- Commerce
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Mayas -- Belize -- Antiquities
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Salt -- Belize -- History
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Mayas -- Antiquities
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Mayas -- Commerce
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Salt
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Salt industry and trade
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Belize
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- author of foreward.
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Chase, Diane Z., author of foreward.
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| ISBN |
9780813057118 |
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0813057116 |
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