CONTRIBUTIONS
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY
Number 27
STUDIES IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA, II
Edited by John A. Graham
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Archaeological Research Facility
Department of Anthropology
1975
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The Grolier Codex
by J. Eric S. -Thompson. .    . .   0 . . .  . . . .    . .   1
Archaeological Investigations at Tulum and Tanach, Quintana Roo, Mexico:
A Progress Report of the 1974 Season
by Arthur G. Miller .. ......       .l . . . .. . . . .      10
A Maya ' Pocket Stela' ?
by Norman Hammond, David H. Kelley and Peter Mathews. . .    17
Cui Orange Polychrome: A Late Classic Funerary Type from Central
Campeche, Mexico
by Joseph W. Ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .         32
Maya Settlement Hierarchy in Northern Belize
by Norman Hammond. . . . . .l     . . .  . . . . . . . .     40
Ancient Agricultural Farmsteads in the Rio Bec Region of Yucatan
by Jack D. Eaton . . . . . . . . .    . 0  . .  . . . . .    56
A Painted Capstone from the Maya Area
by Christopher Jones . . . . . . . . . . .        .....      83
Pre-Agricultural Village Life: The Late Preceramic Period in Veracruz
by S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson .   . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The Identification of the Emblem Glyph of Yaxha, El Peten
by John S. Justeson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
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EDITOR'S NOTE
The present collection of papers appears almost one and a half years after its
originally scheduled date of publication. To contributors who submitted papers as long
as two years ago, I wish to extend my sincerest apologies for the exasperating and quite
unforeseen delays. Budgetary problems, a shift from the University Printing Office to
a commercial reproduction service, personnel changes in the staff of the Archaeological
Research Facility, my own absence from Berkeley for much of the preceding 18 months,
and other technical mattershaveallcontributed to the lengthy ensuing delay. Readers
should bear in mind, therefore, that most of the papers constituting this volume were
submitted almost two years ago, and some no doubt were written considerably earlier
still. Consulting a paper's bibliography may indicate the approximate date of writing
although it should be noted that material originally cited as "in press" has been corrected
in those instances where these titles are now published.
Turning from the past and the present to future publication, I am pleased to
announce the initiation of a new publication series under my editorship: Ballena Press
Studies in Mesoamerican Art, Archaeology, and Ethnohistory. The first volume of the
new series is a monograph by Dr. Christopher Corson, MAYA ANTHROPOMORPHIC
FIGURINES FROM JAINA ISLAND, CAMPECHE, and will appear in January of 1976.
A second volume, a collection of papers, is now being assembled. Orders for Dr.
Corson's monograph, or standing orders for the series, may be placed with the publisher,
Ballena Press, P. O. Box 711, Ramona, California 92065. The series will have a format
resembling the Contributions, making it possible to offer volumes at minimal cost.
As this note is being prepared, news arrives of the death of J. Eric S.
Thompson, contributor to the present and past volumes of this series. Eric's death brings
the deepest sadness to his many friends, and I wish with all humility to dedicate this
present volume to his memory. Aside from his many great contributions to our discipline,
which need not be chronicled here, I and perhaps other fellow younger colleagues will
always remember and be grateful for his unfailing kindness and patience with our errors.
John A. Graham
Berkeley, California
September, 1975
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