SMALL PROJECTILE POINTS OF PETÉN: Resources, Production, and Interpolity Variability

Archaeological research into the Postclassic occupation of the central Petén lakes region has focused on the relations between a shifting sociopolitical landscape and the material correlates of these ethnopolities through architecture, ceramics, and mortuary patterns (Cecil 2001, 2009b; Duncan 2005; Pugh 2001; Rice and Cecil 2009b; Rice and Rice 2009b; Schwarz 2004). Only recently has attention been explicitly directed toward lithics and the intersection of political divisions and lithic technology (Meissner 2009, 2014c, 2017; Meissner et al. 2013; Sánchez Polo 2009; Schwarz 2013b; Yacubic 2014; Yacubic and Meissner 2013). This chapter examines the relations among economics, political boundaries, and factionalism