出版社：South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
摘要：La Aleta is a major Ta¨ªno site that we believe served as a regional ceremonial center. The site's features include a flooded sinkhole and four stone-lined plazas similar to contact-period plazas used for ball games and dances. This paper uses data derived from instrumental neutron acti-vation analysis (INAA) of ceramics from the sinkhole and plazas to evaluate hypotheses about La Aleta's importance and internal organization. The INAA data are not inconsistent with the interpretation that La Aleta served a regional, rather than local, population, but the results to date are probably best described as equivocal. The data do not support the hypothesis that each of the four plazas was used by people from a different locality. Instead, the data are more con-sistent with alternative hypotheses about the use of the plazas and/or the manufacture of the ceramics found therein
