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Estimates of Maya Population: Deranging Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. Eric S. Thompson*
Affiliation:
Saffron Waldon Essex, England

Abstract

The Maya habit of abandoning a hut after the occupant's death and the readiness with which they moved communal sites may seriously affect archaeological estimates of population.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1971

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