The Vanderbilt Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project 1989–1994: Overview, History, and Major Results of a Multidisciplinary Study of the Classic Maya collapse
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Publication Date
1-1-1997
Publication Title
Ancient Mesoamerica
Volume Number
8
Issue Number
2
Abstract
The background, research design, structure, personnel, and history of investigations of the Vanderbilt Petexbatun Archaeological Project are summarized and critiqued. The major findings of each of the dozen subprojects of this multidisciplinary investigation of Maya civilization in the southwestern Peten region of Guatemala are reviewed. Subproject results include important new evidence on Classic Maya history, warfare, ecology, nutrition, cave ritual, social organization, and trade. These are summarized with particular emphasis on the implications of the Petexbatun findings for theories of the decline of southern lowland Maya civilization at the end of the Classic period.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536100001693
Recommended Citation
Demarest, Arthur A., "The Vanderbilt Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project 1989–1994: Overview, History, and Major Results of a Multidisciplinary Study of the Classic Maya collapse" (1997). KIP Articles. 7957.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/7957
