Healy (top) standing atop 1-2 metre tall remnant walls forming ancient Maya hillslope terraces (Classic Period, A.D. 250-900) at Caracol, Belize. (See.

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Healy (top) standing atop 1-2 metre tall remnant walls forming ancient Maya hillslope terraces (Classic Period, A.D ) at Caracol, Belize. (See Healy et al. 1983, "Caracol, Belize: Evidence of Ancient Maya Agricultural Terraces," Journal of Field Archaeology 10: ).

Healy with base fragment of Classic Period limestone monument (Stela 4), Plaza A, Pacbitun, Belize (369 cm x 126 cm x 27 cm, reconstructed original size). (see Healy 1990, "An Early Classic Maya Monument at Pacbitun, Belize," Mexicon 12: ).

Pacbitun, Belize: View of south side of Structure 1 (16m), on Plaza A, begun during the Terminal Preclassic Period (100 B.C.-A.D. 250) and abandoned in the Terminal Classic Period (A.D ). (see Healy 1990, "Excavations at Pacbitun, Belize: Preliminary Report on the 1986 and 1987 Investigations," Journal of Field Archaeology 7: ).

Aerial photograph of Moho Cay, Belize, a Classic Period Maya trade port located near the mouth of the Belize River, outside modern day Belize City (Healy and McKillop 1980, "Moho Cay, Belize: A Preliminary Report on the 1979 Field Season," Belizean Studies 8:10-16; and Healy et al. 1984, "Analysis of Obsidian from Moho Cay, Belize: New Evidence on Ancient Maya Trade Routes," Science 225:

Healy (far left) with 1979 Trent University Archaeological Field School, at Rio Frio Cave, Belize. Also pictured: Drs. Julie Cormack, Jaime Awe, Mark Campbell, Christine White, and Heather McKillop.

Healy (far right) with 1984 Trent University Archaeological Field School, at Augustine-Pine Ridge, Belize. Also pictured: Drs. Lori Wright, Polydora Baker, Kitty Emery, Allan Moore and Jaime Awe.

Parade of Late Classic Period Maya musicians, with maracas, from a painted wall mural at Bonampak, Mexico. (see Healy 1988, "Music of the Maya," Archaeology 41:24-31.

Late Classic polychrome ceramics, such as the spectacular "Buenavista Vase" from Buenavista del Cayo, Belize, were an important part of early Maya inter-site trade and were often included as elite funerary offerings. (29.7 cm x 12.3 cm, diameter, Belize Department of Archaeology, Cat. 27/189-9) (see Healy et al. 1998, "An Ancient Maya Multiple Burial at Caledonia, Cayo District, Belize," Journal of Field Archaeology 25:261:274).

A Middle Preclassic Period (ca. 500 B.C.), hand-modeled, clay figurine from the Maya site of Cahal Pech, Belize (see Healy [editor] 1999, Belize Valley Preclassic Maya Project: Report on the 1996 and Field Seasons. Trent University, Department of Anthropology, Occasional Papers No. 13. Peterborough, Ontario).