An Ancient Maya Hafted Stone Tool from Northern Belize

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dc.contributor.authorShafer, Harry J.
dc.contributor.authorHester, Thomas R.
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-16T19:48:41Z
dc.date.available2023-02-16T19:48:41Z
dc.date.issued1986
dc.description.abstractIn 1974, the late Dennis Puleston excavated a hafted stone artifact from the mucky fill of an ancient canal near San Antonio, Orange Walk District, in northern Belize. This specimen has never been published, although it was illustrated by Palacio (1976). The artifact consists of several pieces of a wooden handle and a large chipped stone biface originally set in a mortise haft through the handle. In 1982, Mary Pohl of Florida State University, in her capacity as the director of the Rio Hondo Project, invited us to conduct a detailed study of the axe. The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of the specimen, assess its antiquity, and comment on its probable function.* It is, as best as we can tell, a unique specimen and is thus of particular significance in the study of the stone tool technology of the Lowland Maya.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMary Pohl, Rio Hondo Project, Florida State Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12588/1746
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCenter for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonioen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Papers in Archaeology;No. 3
dc.subjectStone implements--Belizeen_US
dc.subjectExcavations (Archaeology)--Belizeen_US
dc.subjectIndians of Central America--Belize--Antiquitiesen_US
dc.titleAn Ancient Maya Hafted Stone Tool from Northern Belizeen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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