7 Citations
Donut Stones as Thigh-Supported Spindle Whorls: Evidence of Ancient Maya Household Yarn and Cordage Production
- GeographyLatin American Antiquity
- 2012
Abstract Donut stones are a relatively common class of ground stone artifact found at archaeological sites throughout Mesoamerica and Andean South America, and a variety of functional interpretations…
Gender, Farming, and Long‐Term Change
- SociologyCurrent Anthropology
- 2006
A reassessment of ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological evidence documents variation in Maya agricultural technologies across time and space and change in the social relations of farming…
AGRICULTURAL POLE RITUALS AND RULERSHIP IN LATE FORMATIVE CENTRAL JALISCO
- SociologyAncient Mesoamerica
- 2003
Recent research into the Teuchitlan tradition continues to improve our understanding of western Mexico's relationship to the rest of Mesoamerica. The tradition is defined on the basis of its…
Women, Horticulture, and Society in Sub‐Saharan Africa
- History
- 1976
Considerable power was probably available to either sex earlier in human history. Males were largely concerned with the prestige sphere based on control of special goods usually involving mobility…
Deutung von Orts- und Flurnetzen im Hochland von Mexiko als kultreligiöse Reliktformen altindianischer Besiedlung
- Environmental Science
- 1974
Coutts, H. H.: Rainfall of the Kilimanjaro area, Weather, Vol. 24, p. 66-69, 1969. East Africa Royal Comission: Report for 1953-1955, Lon don, p. 252-254 and Map. 3, 1961. Findlater, J.: Mean monthly…
Food-Producing Systems Available to the Ancient Maya
- HistoryAmerican Antiquity
- 1971
Abstract Discussion on the subsistence base of the ancient Maya has centered mainly around the potentialities and limitations of shifting cultivation. The case for alternative and more intensive…