CONTRIBUTIONS

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Number 41                                     December 1979

STUDIES IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA, IV

Edited by John A. Graham

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Department of Anthropoloy

University of California

Berkeley

CONTR IBUTIONS

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY

Number 41                                                  December 1979

STUDIES IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA, IV

Edited by

John A. Graham

Archaeological Research Facility

Department of Anthropology

University of California

Berkeley

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Great Mound of La Venta

by John Graham and Mark Johnson                      1
Ruins of Semetabaj, Dept. Solola, Guatemala

by Edwin M. Shook, Marion P. Hatch,

Jamie K. Donaldson                                   7

The Early Preclassic Sequence in the Ocos-Salinas
La Blanca Area, South Coast of Guatemala

by Edwin M. Shook and Marion P. Hatch              143
The Altun Ha Jade Plaque: Deciphering the Inscription

by Peter Mathews and David M. Pendergast           197

The Swasey Complex of Northern Belize: A Definition
and Discussion

by D.C. Pring                                      215

Introductory Archaeological Survey of the Central Peten
Savanna, Guatemala

by Don S. Rice and Prudence M. Rice                231

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