24. “ Perhaps the most striking thing about the report is the amazing quantity and quality of the information that was recovered, and reconstructed, from what is in reality a relatively small excavated sample.”
25. “ tunnels can provide effective, indeed conclusive, information about the growth, form, and function of the architectural units whose understanding is critical to our elucidation of the nature of culture change and historical action in the ancient Maya world.”
26. “ I was, for the most part, convinced that the broad outlines of construction sequencing proposed by Coe represented the best presently derivable solutions to what were at time virtually intractable problems... Coe has done a masterful job of tying together an enormously disparate and complex set of field records into a cohesive, compelling whole.”
27. “ TR 14 represents not an end unto itself, but the beginning of many new studies at Tikal and elsewhere. This report belongs in the library of scholars truly interested in the ancient Maya.”
30. The survey included hundreds of “house-mounds”, smaller structures either alone or in aggregates, hardly noticeable but lifted enough to catch the eye of surveyors.
31. In one village Coe describes, housed workmen and their families. Prior to excavation, only four structures were recorded, but more became visible as dirt was lifted away.
32. Realized that the “house-mounds” were highly variable in size, shape and complexity.
33. Could provide insight to Maya social organization and an idea for a total population of Tikal. The latter continued to be a indeterminate.
34. Experiments with crop production, storage longevity in tropical climates, and botanical investigations addressed issues previously ignored by archaeologists such as subsistence, agriculture, and environmental impact.
