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Although the history of the investigation of caves in Mesoamerica goes back some 150 years; little work has been carried out to collate and synthesise the data. Despite the ground-breaking work of J Eric Thompson in the 1950s and 1960s; it was not until the 1980s that cave archaeology came of age in this region. Based on papers given at a session at the 1994 AAA meeting in Atlanta; Georgia; this book brings together a group of scholars working in this feild of study. Together they explore many facets of cave use in pre-Columbian to modern-day Mesoamerica; offering specific site studies as well as theoretical and ethnographically-based papers. Issues of cave morphology; cave use; artefact distributions; spatial layout; identifying ritual behaviour; the archaeology of caves and the use of ethnographic datam are all covered. The papers are split into those focusing on Central Mexico (three papers); Oxaca (two papers) and the Maya region (nine papers).