Rethinking Ramón: A Comment on Reina and Hill's Lowland Maya Subsistence
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 46 (4) , 916-919
- https://doi.org/10.2307/280117
Abstract
A recent identification of ramon in Miranda's sixteenth-century relacion of Alta Verapaz more likely describes achiote. There is very little archaeological evidence to suggest that ramon was more than a famine food in ancient Maya times.Keywords
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- An Experimental Approach to the Function of Classic Maya ChultunsAmerican Antiquity, 1971