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the nearest convenient beaches, with a handful of exceptions
apparently brought from the more distant Caribbean coast.
This might imply ethnic barriers to trade of which we are not
otherwise aware."64
Current investigations on the island of Cozumel, long
recognized as a major religious shrine, should further illumi-
nate the nature of trade patterns, and perhaps indicate if
Mexican (or Putun) "groups were cutting the Lowland Maya out
of trade networks.,65 Results may show late Classic Maya
centers resisting a "Mexicanoid" usurpation of trade along
northern Yucatan, which prompted. them to turn to the Pacific
oriented trade patterns, thus providing the Putun with a mo-
tive for conquest of the southern lowlands, already wracked
by political disputes and the economic hardships of changing
an established commercial network.
The second area of study which may clarify spheres of
influence among the late Classic Maya is in its infancy, and
might be termed, literally, Classic Maya history. The Maya
have often been considered a prehistoric people, not because
they did not write, but because we have been unable to read
their inscriptions. Miss Tatiana Proskouriakoff broke new
ground not by her suggestion that Maya hieroglyphs did not
64. 'Ibid, pp. 59, 60.
65. Jeremy A. Sabloff and William L. Rathje, "A study of
changing precolumbian commercial patterns on the island of
Cozumel, Mexico," Atti Del XL Congresso Internazionale Degli
Americanisti (Roma: Congress-of Americanists,-1972), p. 457.
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Wood, Jeffrey Clark. The Classic Maya Collapse: A Review of Evidence and Interpretations, thesis, December 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504349/m1/133/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .