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Sibun Valley from Late Classic through Colonial Times: Investigations of the 2003 Season of the Xibun Archaeological Research Project

Edited by Patricia A. McAnany, Eleanor Harrison-Buck, and Steven Morandi

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Preface and Acknowledgements, Patricia A. McAnany

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Table of Contents

1. Field Research of the 2003 Season - 250 KB
Patricia A. McAnany, Eleanor Harrison-Buck, and Steve Morandi

Part I. Further Investigations within Coastal-Oriented Transect 5 - 2.15 MB

2. Riverside Residential Midden at the Samuel Oshon Site (Operation 25)
Eleanor Harrison-Buck and Jessica L. King

3. Circular Shrine at the Augustine Obispo Site (Operation 32)
Eleanor Harrison-Buck

4. Residential Construction & Mortuary Ritual at the Augustine Obispo Site (Operation 33)
Emily R. Hall

Part II: Colonial Period and Earlier at the Entrance to the Karst (Transect 4) - 3.45 MB

5. The Search for Spanish-Colonial Structures at Cedar Bank (Operations 40-44)
Steven Morandi and Christa D. Cesario

6. Anglo-Colonial Occupation in the Area of Gracy Rock
Daniel Finamore

Part III. First Exploration of Transect 2 - 1.58 MB

7. Reconnaissance and GPS Mapping within Transect 2
Satoru Murata, David G. Buck, and Steven Morandi

8. Survey and Excavations at Queso Blanco (Operations 60-61)
Satoru Murata, Steven Morandi, David G. Buck, and Christa D. Cesario

Part IV. Return to the Hershey Site - 4.32 MB

9. Passageway from the Main Plaza to the Ballcourt (Operation 54)
Eleanor Harrison-Buck and Christa D. Cesario

10. The Ballcourt at the Hershey Site (Operation 55)
Jessica L. King

11. Construction Sequence at the Group B Pyramid (Operation 56)
Steven Morandi

12. The Eastern Shrine of Group A (Operation 57)
Eleanor Harrison-Buck and David G. Buck

Part V. Artifact Analyses - 4.65 MB

13. Overview of Artifacts and Samples Collected during the 2003 Season
Satoru Murata

14. Studies of Sibun Pottery
Section 1: Encounters and Dis-encounters Reflected in Sibun Valley pottery
Sandra L. López Varela
Section 2: Roaring Creek Red Pottery from Glenwood Cave and Actun Chanona Wallis J. Lord

15. Chipped Stone Tools and Debitage from Selected Contexts
Lauren Bateman and Keith McIntosh

16. Prismatic Blade and Long Distance Trade: Obsidian from the Sites of Cedar Bank, Augustine Obispo, and Samuel Oshon
Donna Yates

17. Groundstone Tools from Ritual and Residential Contexts
Alyson M. Thibodeau

18. Baked Clay Material: Its Origin and Purpose
Keri Demonaco Lopez

Part VI. Biological and Geomorphological Analyses - 2.19 MB

19. Burial Interments of Pakal Na
Rebecca Storey

20. Mollusca from Midden and Ritual Contexts
Katherine Belzowski

21. Archaeoethnobotany in the Sibun River Valley
Kirsten J. Tripplett

22. Pollen Evidence for Orchard Agriculture and Cave Rituals in the Sibun Valley
John G. Jones

23. Fluvial Geomorphology of the Upper Sibun Drainage
Thomas F. Bullard