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Functional Evidence for Lapidary and Carpentry Craft Specialties in the Late Classic of the Central Peten Lakes Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2008

Mark Aldenderfer
Mark Aldenderfer
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Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Abstract

Although it has long been clear that craft specialists were present in Late Classic Lowland Maya society, it has proven difficult to identify chipped-stone lithics actually used in craft production. This article outlines a model, based on design theory, that can be used to identify the attributes of tools likely to have been used by lapidary and carpentry craft specialists, and tests it against an assemblage of tools analyzed through microwear analysis from Late Classic assemblages from the central Peten lakes region.

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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Fall 1991 , pp. 205 - 214
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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