Minanha Regional Settlement Survey
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The Minanha Regional Survey [MRS] fundamentally connects to and complements the Social Archaeology Research Program (SARP) at the Minanha site core. Long-term research goals of both the site core and settlement components are far reaching, yet mutually interrelated, investigations of Maya social integration, both at different intensities of interaction and at various scales of analysis.
   

Were ancient Maya houses independent family homes or were they tied into a much larger network of economic and political connections. Were ancient Maya families producing just enough food and goods to get by or were they heavily involved in a many different kinds of exchange relationships, such as participating regularly in markets and trading special items long distances? These are the kinds of questions the Minanhá Regional Survey project is trying to answer.

   

So join us as we embark on a study of the ancient Maya!

This project is jointly sponsored by the Social Archaeology Research Project (SARP) and California State University, Northridge (CSUN). You can either join the project as a volunteer or enroll for university credit in a summer extension course through CSUN. The class is being offered as Anthro 476: Archaeological Survey and Excavation. (see schedule)

Contact Samuel Connell or Ted Neff
Co-Directors Minanha Regional Survey

Web Site Design by Linda Neff


Jointly sponsored by SARP and
College of Extended of Learning, CSU Northridge