Long-Distance Exchange among the Maya: A Comment on Marcus
- 1 October 1984
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 49 (4) , 826-828
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279749
Abstract
With good reason, several scholars have challenged the exaltation of long-distance trade as a prime mover in the rise of civilization. However, in dismissing the economic importance of long-distance exchange in the development of Maya civilization, Marcus (1983) has moved too far in the opposite direction.Keywords
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