caa a22 4500 388057777 CHVBK 20180307125111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S095653610000184X doi S095653610000184X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S095653610000184X The Ceramics of Cuello, Belize [Elektronische Daten] A new evaluation The site of Cuello in northern Belize provides a long ceramic sequence from the early Middle Preclassic, ca. 1200 b.c., to the Late Preclassic, sometime in the fourth century a.d. Excavations begun at Cuello in 1975 were completed in 1993. The initial controversy concerning the chronological placement of the earliest pottery of the Swasey and Bladen complexes is challenged by examining the 1992 and 1993 excavated material in a "blind analysis,” without benefit of stratigraphic information. The results demonstrate conclusively the stratigraphie priority of Swasey ceramics below Bladen, which in turn lie below pottery of the Middle Preclassic Lopez-Mamom complex. Cuello operated within the homogeneous Mamom ceramic sphere during the Middle Preclassic and within the Chicanel ceramic sphere during the Late Preclassic. The ultimate breakup of the Chicanel sphere resulted in Cuello's adherence to the older ceramic traditions, while other Maya sites had begun the production of polychrome pottery. Cuello represents one of the best-known Middle Preclassic Maya sites yet investigated, and it provides an important perspective on this poorly understood time period in the Maya lowlands. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Kosakowsky Laura J. Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA Pring Duncan C. John Swire and Sons, 9 Connaught Road, C, Hong Kong Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/1(1998), 55-66 0956-5361 9:1<55 1998 9 ATM https://doi.org/10.1017/S095653610000184X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S095653610000184X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kosakowsky Laura J. Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pring Duncan C. John Swire and Sons, 9 Connaught Road, C, Hong Kong NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ancient Mesoamerica Cambridge University Press 9/1(1998), 55-66 0956-5361 9:1<55 1998 9 ATM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge