Report on the British Museum Expedition to British Honduras, 1927.

Ancient Maya Trading Ports and the Integration of Long-Distance and Regional Economies: Wild Cane Cay in South-Coastal Belize

“…Previous fieldwork and exploration on Wild Cane Cay have demonstrated that the Maya occupied the island and that they participated in trade during the Late Classic and Postclassic periods (Gann 1917(Gann , 1918Hammond 1975:277-282;Joyce 1929;Mitchell-Hedges 1931:121). Exotic trade goods reported included obsidian, jade, copper, and Plumbate pottery (Dochstader 1964: Figure 99; Gann 1911Gann :78-79, 1917Gann , 1918Hammond 1975:277-282;Kidder 1954;Stross et al 1978).…”

“…Subsequent investigations included a visit by Herbert Spinden in 1914 (Kidder 1954). The British Museum expedition to Lubaantun visited and reported the site on Wild Cane Cay in 1929 (Joyce 1929). The British Museum expedition to Lubaantun visited and reported the site on Wild Cane Cay in 1929 (Joyce 1929).…”

A Bayesian AMS 14C chronology of the Classic Maya Center of Uxbenká, Belize

“…Lubaantun lacks epigraphic history from monuments, though three carved ballcourt markers have been stylistically dated to the Late Classic (Wanyerka, 2004). Pusilhá was excavated by the British Museum (Joyce, 1929;Joyce et al, 1927), Hammond (1975: 274), Leventhal (1990Leventhal ( , 1992 and Braswell (Bill and Braswell, 2005;Braswell et al, 2004). Hieroglyphic texts suggest that the polity may have been formed as late as AD 570 and persisted at least through AD 790.…”

Artifacts that speak for themselves: Sounds underfoot in Mesoamerica

“…Already, the region's cave sites have been effectively evaluated in terms of (a) sources of drinking water (Veni, 1990); (b) sources of ''virgin'' water for religious rites (Digby, 1958;Mason, 1928Mason, , 1940McNatt, 1984;Pendergast, , 1971Stone, 1984); (c) religious rites (Gann, 1925(Gann, , 1929Graham et al, 1980;McNatt, 1984;Miller, 1989aMiller, ,b,c, 1990Palacio, 1977a,b;Prufer, 1995;Reents, 1980;Reents-Budet and MacLeod, 1986;Stone, 1984Stone, , 1995; (d) burials, ossuaries, and cremations (Bonor, 1986(Bonor, , 1989Pendergast, 1971;Roberts, 1990;Stone, 1995;Thompson, 1975); (e) art galleries (Bonor, 1995;Grove, 1970;Niederberger, 1996;Stone, 1995;Villela F., 1989;Walters, 1988aWalters, ,b, 1989); (f) ceremonial dumps (Brady and Rodas, 1995;Joyce et al, 1928;Joyce, 1929;Pendergast, 1969); (g) and shelter, storage (Manzanilla and McClund de Tapia, 1996), hunting blinds (Thompson, 1959(Thompson, , 1975, fertilizer sources …”