Comparative Archaeology Database  |  Center for Comparative Archaeology  |  University of Pittsburgh



Rosario Valley Architectural Gini Coefficient and Neighborhood Dataset

Kyle Shaw-Müller and John P. Walden



The location of Sampled Polity Polygons is provided in the file below. These are the estimated boundaries of the three polities in question. They are largely based on drop-offs in architectural density between polities, as detailed in de Montmollin’s 1995 work Settlement and politics in three classic Maya polities.

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Coordinate system is UTM zone 15N based on WGS84 (units are meters).

Layer Polity_areas (color Merlot) is AutoCAD closed polyline representing the polygons that make up sampled polity areas of the survey area.