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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. pp586-593, illustrated. Removed from AMERICAN ANTIQUITY. JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY, Volume 48, Number 3, July, 1983. VG. In report covers May include a first or last copied page. Synopsis: "Hieroglyphic and comparative linguistic evidence indicates that a Lowland Maya stela cult had been in existence with monuments being erected predominantly or exclusively at the end of the 360-day year, in Late Preclassic times. These data corroborate Hammond's (1982) evidence for Late Preclassic stela erection. With his demonstration that the stela cult was associated with public architecture and a sacrificial burial at Cuella, the inference that contemporaneous stelae were erected primarily at year-endings established the complete Lowland Maya form of the stela cult well before the end of the Late Preclassic. It indicates that the cult was contemporaneous with Pacific coastal and adjacent highland stela cults, and developed at least partially in independence of the latter.".…