Author: Willey, Gordon Randolph [1913 - ]
Title: The Altar de Sacrificios Excavations: General Summary and Conclusions
Description: Cambridge [MA], Peabody Museum, 1973. orig.wrappers. 27x20cm, 85 pp, Series: Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, v. 64, no. 3.. Textual map & drawings.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Recapitulation: The Site & Its Environs; The Problems; The Excavations & Operations; Culture-Historical Integration: The Determination of Cultural Phases; Chronology & Dating; Practical Difficulties in Phase Assignments; Xe Phase; San Felix Phase; Plancha Phase; Salinas Phase; Ayn Phase; Veremos Phase; Chixoy Phase; Pasion Phase;Boca Phase; Jimba Phase; Post-Jimba; Comments on Ethnohistory and Archaeology; Trends: Settlement; The Human Populations; Monumental Art, Inscriptions, Calendrics; Craft Goods; Treatment of the Dead; Votive Caches; Closing Comment on Initial Problems; Toward Process; Appendix: Errata or Discrepancies in Designations in Previous Altar de Sacrificios Monographs.

Keywords: New World Archeology, Altar, de Sacrificios, Ancient Guatemala, Central America, Excavation Reports, Archaeology, Prehistory History,