• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Valley de Naco: Ethnohistory and Archaeology in Northwestern Honduras
  • Contributor: Henderson, John S.
  • imprint: American Society for Ethnohistory, 1977
  • Published in: Ethnohistory
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0014-1801; 1527-5477
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  • Description: <p>At the time of the conquest, northwestern Honduras, a part of the culturally complex eastern Maya frontier zone, participated in extensive exchange networks. Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that Naco, one of the principal late prehispanic centers in the region, maintained strong ties with the rest of the Maya world and with non-Maya Central America. A similar pattern of external connections characterized earlier centers in the Valle de Naco.</p>