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Journal articles on the topic "Cuello Site (Belize)"

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Kosakowsky, Laura J., and Duncan C. Pring. "The Ceramics of Cuello, Belize." Ancient Mesoamerica 9, no. 1 (1998): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095653610000184x.

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AbstractThe site of Cuello in northern Belize provides a long ceramic sequence from the early Middle Preclassic, ca. 1200 b.c., to the Late Preclassic, sometime in the fourth century a.d. Excavations begun at Cuello in 1975 were completed in 1993. The initial controversy concerning the chronological placement of the earliest pottery of the Swasey and Bladen complexes is challenged by examining the 1992 and 1993 excavated material in a “blind analysis,” without benefit of stratigraphic information. The results demonstrate conclusively the stratigraphie priority of Swasey ceramics below Bladen, which in turn lie below pottery of the Middle Preclassic Lopez-Mamom complex. Cuello operated within the homogeneous Mamom ceramic sphere during the Middle Preclassic and within the Chicanel ceramic sphere during the Late Preclassic. The ultimate breakup of the Chicanel sphere resulted in Cuello's adherence to the older ceramic traditions, while other Maya sites had begun the production of polychrome pottery. Cuello represents one of the best-known Middle Preclassic Maya sites yet investigated, and it provides an important perspective on this poorly understood time period in the Maya lowlands.
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Hammond, Norman, Jeremy Bauer, and Sophie Hay. "Preclassic Maya architectural ritual at Cuello, Belize." Antiquity 74, no. 284 (June 2000): 265–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00059172.

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The Preclassic community of Cuello, the earliest village site hitherto excavated in the Maya Lowlands, centred on Platform 34, a flat-topped eminence where investigations between 1975 and 1993 documented occupation from at least 1200 BC to c. AD 400 (Hammond 1991; Hammond et al. 1995). Between 1000 and 400 BC the locus was occupied by a courtyard which with successive rebuildings became both larger and more formally organized, domestic activities shifting to the margins and ritual, including ancestor veneration, becoming more important (Hammond & Gerhardt 1990). Around 400 BC the final Middle Preclassic structures on the north, west and south sides of the court were ceremoniously demolished, their faqades hacked off and their superstructures burned. The entire courtyard was filled with rubble prior to the construction of the broad, open Platform 34, which itself underwent successive enlargements over the ensuing seven centuries.
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Kosakowsky, Laura J. "SHAPING CERAMIC RESEARCH AT THE MAYA SITE OF CUELLO, BELIZE." Ancient Mesoamerica 14, no. 1 (January 2003): 61–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536103132087.

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Traditional analyses of ceramics from Maya Lowland archaeological sites have focused on descriptive typologies to define site and regional chronologies. However, T. Patrick Culbert's groundbreaking work on the ceramics of Tikal (1993) utilized vessel shapes, as well, involving an analytical system of two levels: shape classes and shapes. His systematized modal analysis and concentration on vessel-shape classes, in conjunction with a focus on the importance of deposit types and site-formation processes, revolutionized what ceramics can tell us about prehistoric Maya behavior. The same approach was applied to the research on the Cuello ceramics presented here to gain a better understanding of the behavior associated with ceramic-vessel usage during the Preclassic period at this northern Belize site.
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Hammond, Norman, Amanda Clarke, and Francisco Estrada Belli. "Middle Preclassic Maya buildings and burials at Cuello, Belize." Antiquity 66, no. 253 (December 1992): 955–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00044884.

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Work in 1992 has significantly added to understanding of this important Maya site in the Middle Formative or Preclassic period (1000–450 BC). The known settled area now extends to 1.62 sq. km. One of the 14 burials was associated with rich grave-goods, suggesting that it was of a leading member of the Cuello community in the 5th century BC.
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Hammond, Norman, Amanda Clarke, and Sara Donaghey. "The Long Goodbye: Middle Preclassic Maya Archaeology at Cuello, Belize." Latin American Antiquity 6, no. 2 (June 1995): 120–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/972147.

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Completed excavations at this important Preclassic Maya site have produced 350 m2 of Middle Preclassic (1200-400 B. C.) deposits dug to bedrock; a continuous section 47 m long through the Preclassic deposits documents the architectural history of the site. Nine more Middle Preclassic burials, the remains of earth- and plaster-floored houses with associated yard surfaces, and a chultun chamber containing well-preserved plant remains document economic and ritual behavior in the Swasey and Bladen phases (1200-650 B. C.).
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Andrews, E. Wyllys, and Norman Hammond. "Redefinition of the Swasey Phase at Cuello, Belize." American Antiquity 55, no. 3 (July 1990): 570–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/281287.

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Calibrated radiocarbon dates of 19 samples excavated since 1976 at the site of Cuello, in northern Belize, place the Swasey phase (11 dates) and Bladen phase (8 dates) in the Middle Formative period, rather than in the Early Formative, as 10 dates on charcoal excavated in 1975 and 1976 indicated. The post-1976 dates for both phases fall between about 1100 and 400 B.C., and the two sets do not appear to differ significantly. All except 3 of the 35 archaeologically acceptable dates from the later Lopez Mamom and Cocos Chicanel contexts fall within the conventionally accepted ranges for those phases. A mixture of old charcoal from the environment or from an unidentified pre-Swasey occupation with the 1975–1976 samples may explain their early radiocarbon ages, although why such mixing should have affected only the 1975–1976 samples is not known. This reassessment of the early Cuello sequence aligns it with comparable cultural developments elsewhere in the Maya area and suggests that the earliest farming communities of northern Belize perhaps derived from the highlands of Guatemala.
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McSwain, Rebecca. "A Comparative Evaluation of the Producer-Consumer Model for Lithic Exchange in Northern Belize, Central America." Latin American Antiquity 2, no. 4 (December 1991): 337–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/971782.

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New lithic data from the early Maya site of Cuello in northern Belize provide a basis for examining a production-consumption model for intersite exchange of stone tools. Comparison of lithic evidence from Cuello, Pulltrouser Swamp, and Cerros, putative consumer communities, with evidence from Colhá, the production community, suggests that during the Late Preclassic two highly standardized formal tools were manufactured at Colhá and distributed to northern Belizean communities as a finished product. Those communities also obtained Colhá-like material in less-reduced form for local manufacture of other formal tools. The availability of a high-quality chert source in large nodules may have been an enabling factor in Late Preclassic regional developments, including agricultural intensification.
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Law, I. A., R. A. Housley, Norman Hammond, and R. E. M. Hedges. "Cuello: Resolving the Chronology Through Direct Dating of Conserved and Low-Collagen Bone by AMS1." Radiocarbon 33, no. 3 (1991): 303–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200040339.

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It is well known that 14C dating of fossil bone with seriously depleted protein levels, or bone that has been consolidated with preservatives, can produce erroneous results. In the tropics, warm and moist soil conditions lead to constant reworking of organic matter and add to the danger of bone contamination. Because of this, 14C dating of preservative-impregnated bone from such areas has rarely been successful. We report here a set of AMS dates on both unconsolidated animal bone and polyvinyl acetate/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA/PV-OH) impregnated human burials from the Maya site of Cuello, Belize. The steps needed to purify the samples are described, together with details on the use of qualitative infra-red (IR) spectra as a means of assessing sample purity.
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Graham, Elizabeth. "Norman Hammond (ed.). Cuello: an early Maya community in Belize. xxii+260 pages, 198 figures, 59 tables. 1991. Cambridge & New York (NY): Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-38422-2 hardback £65 & $89.50. - Vernon L. Scarborough Archaeology at Cerros, Belize, Central America III: The settlement system in a late preclassic Maya community. x+243 pages, illustrations, tables, folded site map. 1991. Dallas (TX): Southern Methodist University Press; ISBN 0-87074-307-4 paperback $22.50." Antiquity 67, no. 257 (December 1993): 950–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00064164.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Cuello Site (Belize)"

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Kosakowsky, Laura J. "Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize." University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595479.

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"This monograph adds important data on the development of Preclassic period ceramics in northern Belize."—American Antiquity"This book contributes to our understanding of early Maya society during an era that has only new been revealed."—The Chesopiean"Kosakowsky's book, produced in the clear, easy-to-read and well designed format . . . is a substantive contribution to Maya ceramic studies."—Journal of Latin American Studies
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McSwain, Rebecca Anne. "Production and exchange of stone tools among Preclassic Maya communities: Evidence from Cuello, Belize." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184958.

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Analysis of lithics, particularly flake debitage, from a small Preclassic Maya community provides data bearing upon the manufacture and distribution of stone tools in the northern Belizean region during the Middle and Late Preclassic eras. These data suggest a complex relationship among contemporaneous communities with regard to raw material and tool acquisition and manufacture. There is no evidence of monopoly of raw material resources by any one group; rather, a mixed pattern is seen involving distribution both of partly processed raw material and of certain finished formal tool types. These formal types, as well as befaces in general, are seen to be increasingly important through time, possibly related to changing agricultural practices. While no conclusions can be drawn on the basis of presently available lithic data as to the nature of the Preclassic regional lithic distribution system, ethnographic and archaeological analogies are used to suggest some possible economic scenarios.
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