Maya Stone-Tool Craft Specialization and Production at Colha, Belize: Reply to Mallory
- 20 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 51 (1), 158-166
- https://doi.org/10.2307/280402
Abstract
The definition and existence of specialized chert tool workshops and workshop deposits at Colha, Belize are addressed in this reply. Density estimates are provided for workshop deposits along with revised production estimates for the Late Preclassic Period. A pattern is beginning to emerge in the Maya lowlands with regards to communities of craft specialists; they appear to have been in settlements surrounding the larger centers, not in the major centers themselves.Keywords
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