Abstract:This volume on the earliest lowland Maya pottery began without a name and remained nameless until it was nearly completely written. Like the pre-Mamom era itself, even now a better moniker eludes us, and the reader will note that, while the participating authors agree there is something called pre-Mamom, we cannot yet reach consensus on exactly how to define it, set parameters on it, or place it precisely in absolute or relative time. In fact, we are not yet certain whether we have one pre-Mamom component or m… Show more
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