AMCS Bulletin 16

Ancient Maya Ritual Cave Use
in the Sibun Valley, Belize

By Polly A. Peterson
with a foreword by James E. Brady
148 pages, softbound
15 tables, 79 figures, including cave maps
2006

This is a complete publication of the author's 2005 PhD disseration, done at Boston University. It is a detailed study of cave archaeology in central Belize, done as part of the Xibun Archaeological Research Project.

Table of Contents
15 Introduction
23 Methods and site descriptions
57 Ceramics
71 Lithics
89 Human skeletal remains
95 Faunal materials and wooden artifacts
105 Speleothem transport to settlements
113 Discussion and conclusions
131 Bibliography
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