Excavations in Residential Areas of Tikal--Groups with Shrines: Tikal Report 21

by Christopher Jones and Marshall Joseph Becker

Intensive excavations in settlement areas within greater Tikal generated far more than an understanding of the complex gradations of social classes at this lowland Maya site. Identification of a specific architectural pattern associated with relatively small shrines on the eastern side of certain residential groups, and of a distinctive mortuary program, provides a means by which a "plaza plan" can be predicted using good site maps alone. This discovery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924171715
• ISBN13: 9780924171710
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 11.1"