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Prehispanic Saltmaking in Belize: A Reply to Valdez and Mock and to Marcus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. Jefferson MacKinnon  and
Susan M. Kepecs
J. Jefferson MacKinnon
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, European Division, APO New York 09102
Susan M. Kepecs
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706
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Abstract

In response to the comments on our 1989 paper “Prehispanic Saltmaking in Belize: New Evidence,” we agree with Valdez and Mock that it is possible that some Prehispanic saltmaking sites in Belize may have been oriented toward the preservation of animal-protein resources, but caution against extending the interpretation of their NRL site to the status of generalization. While we may have misinterpreted Marcus, we wish to clarify that we never implied that salt production was a causal factor in Maya state formation.

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En respuesta a los comentarios sobre nuestro artículo de 1989 “Prehispanic Saltmaking in Belize: New Evidence,” estamos de acuerdo con Valdez y Mock en que es posible que la producción de sal en algunos sitios prehispánicos de Bélize puede haber estado destinada a la conservación de proteína animal, pero hacemos notar que es peligroso generalizar en base a la interpretación del sitio NRL. Aún cuando podemos haber malinterpretado a Marcus, deseamos aclarar que nunca implicamos que la producción de salfue un factor causal en la formación del estado maya.

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American Antiquity , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 528 - 530
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1991

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