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This book includes evaluation of the economics of salt production and trade from analyses of the spatial patterning of wooden buildings and associated artifacts that were mapped on the sea floor at the Paynes Creek Salt Works. The book describes the discovery and mapping of the wooden architecture a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKillop, Heather Irene, 1953- (Author)
Other Authors: Chase, Diane Z. (author of foreward.), Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953- (author of foreward.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Salt industry and trade.
Salt.
Mayas > Commerce.
Mayas > Antiquities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Sel > Belize > Histoire.
Mayas > Belize > Antiquites.
Sel > Industrie > Belize.
Salt > Belize > History.
Mayas > Belize > Antiquities.
Salt industry and trade > Belize.
Belize.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This book includes evaluation of the economics of salt production and trade from analyses of the spatial patterning of wooden buildings and associated artifacts that were mapped on the sea floor at the Paynes Creek Salt Works. The book describes the discovery and mapping of the wooden architecture as well as the associated pottery and other artifacts on the surface and embedded in the sea floor during a systematic search for salt production in a large, salt-water lagoon system, Punta Ycacos Lagoon, in southern Belize.
Physical Description:1 online resource (254 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780813057118

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