Accession No

1960.270 B


Description

Hollow bone fragment with ovate opening. Two cracks from one end towards the centre; one piece chipped off and missing between these two cracks.


Place

Americas; Central America; Belize; Cayo District; Xunantunich


Period

Postclassic Maya


Source

MacKie, Euan Wallace [excavator and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1960.270 B; 152.XGE [excavation number]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements

53mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Original description for 1960.270 A-C: 'Short bone tubes. C has a hole drilled half way along'.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Structure A-15. Trench SE3, dark midden layer down to hard surface; context Theta-s. Excavated by Euan MacKie, Cambridge Expedition to British Honduras 1959-1960, funded by the Crowther-Beynon Fund. See archive (FR3/2/3) for correspondence, analysis, etc.
Event Date 1959
Author: maa


Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card notes: 'Phase III, Post Classic [equivalent to] Benque Viejo IV [see Thompson (1924). 'Late Ceramic Horizons at Benque Viejo, British Honduras'. Contributions to American Archaeology and History, no. 35. Carnegie Institution Washington)].'
Event Date 1960
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Context (References)
MacKie, E. W. (1985). Excavations at Xunantunich and Pomona, Belize, in 1959-60. BAR International Series 251.
Event Date 1985
Author: Nora Josephine Klages-Miller


Description (Physical description)
Hollow bone fragment with ovate opening. Two cracks from one end towards the centre; one piece chipped off and missing between these two cracks.
Event Date 21/6/2024
Author: Nora Josephine Klages-Miller


FM:315231

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