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Shells from Maya Excavations in British Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Horace G. Richards  and
H. J. Boekelman
Horace G. Richards
Affiliation:
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J
H. J. Boekelman
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeo- and Ethno-Conchology, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, La
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Two small collections of shells obtained from Maya ruins in British Honduras have recently come to hand, and it has been thought worth while to record the species found, both from a conchological and archaeological viewpoint. When shells are found in archaeological sites, their classification and correlation of original habitats often permit interesting deductions to be made concerning trade routes or relations.

The first set was collected by Dr. Thomas Gann from a crystal burial mound near Rio Hok Skum. The locality is near Corozal in the northern part of British Honduras and about thirty miles from the boundary of Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , October 1937 , pp. 166 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1937

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References

124 Mr. Boekelman is planning at an early date to write a paper on this bivalve from an archaeological viewpoint, accompanied by a bibliography of all authors known to him quoting the use of this shell in America. See a preliminary review in Maya Research, vol. 2, pp. 262–266, 1935.

126 In contact with the god Kukulcan of the Maya and God B. of the codices (Quetzalcoatl). See Gann, Thomas, The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras. Bur. Amer. Eth. Bull. 64, p. 109, 1918.

126 The shells were photographed as part of a WPA archaeological project sponsored by the New Jersey State Museum

127 Vaillant, G. C., Excavations at Ticoman. Anthrop. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. 32, Part 2, 1931.

128 Ower, L. H., The Geology of British Honduras. Colonial Secretary's Office, Belize, 24 pages and map, 1928.

129 Schuchert, Charles, Historical Geology of the Antillean Caribbean Region, p. 346, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1935 Google Scholar.

130 Sapper, Karl, Sobre la geografia fisica y la geologia de la Peninsula de Yucatan. Inst. Geol. Mexico, Bol. 3, 57 pages and maps, 1896; Mittelamerika. Handbuch der Regionalen Geologie, Band 8, 4a, 1937.

131 Richards, Horace G., Land and Freshwater Shells from the Island of Cozumel, Mexico, and Their Bearing on the Geological History of the Region. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1937 (in press).