Prehispanic Saltmaking in Belize: A Reply to Valdez and Mock and to Marcus
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 56 (3) , 528-530
- https://doi.org/10.2307/280902
Abstract
In response to the comments on our 1989 paper “Prehispanic Saltmaking in Belize: New Evidence,” we agree with Valdez and Mock that it is possible that some Prehispanic saltmaking sites in Belize may have been oriented toward the preservation of animal-protein resources, but caution against extending the interpretation of their NRL site to the status of generalization. While we may have misinterpreted Marcus, we wish to clarify that we never implied that salt production was a causal factor in Maya state formation.Keywords
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