109. 
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Highlands), reproduced as no 31 in Borhegyi’s chart. The whereabouts of the 
specimen illustrated by Termer is unknown. There are similar specimens in local 
private collections (Faustino Padilla Collection at Lake Ixpaco, Dept Santa Rosa). 
THompson, J. Eric S. “A trial survey of the Southern Maya area.” Amer 
Antiq, Vol IX, No 1, 1943, pp 106-134. See p 121, pl Xd. 
Illustrates an anthropomorphic mushroom stone representing a seated individual 
with a mushroom cap (Type A). The specimen (now in the Chicago Natural History 
Museum, Cat no 48649) comes from the Central Highlands of Guatemala, and is 
reproduced as no 5 in Borhegyi’s chart. Thompson refers to the piece as a huge 
mushroom-like obiect and mentions that some anthropologists refer to them as 
stone stools, but asserts that they could hardly have been comfortable seats. 
———. “An Archeological Reconnaissance in the Cotzumalhuapa Region, 
Escuintla, Guatemala.” Carnegie Institution of Washington. Contributions 
to American Anthropology and History, Publ 574, Vol IX, No 44, Wash- 
ington, D. C., 1948, pp 1-95. See p 24, figs rof, 20b. 
Describes and illustrates the finding of tripod mushroom stones with plain stems 
(Type D) at Finca el Batil (Dept Escuintla), a site on the Coastal Piedmont of Guate- 
mala. Several fragments and one complete specimen (fig 20b) came from the excava- 
tion of an offertory cache-pit in front of the platform on which stood Monument 3, 
a huge boulder sculpture, representing an aquiline-nosed, bearded individual. 
Associated in this cache-pit with the mushroom stones were other small stone sculp- 
tures, such as yokes, vertically tenoned anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sculptures, 
and some pottery sherds. On the basis of the contents of the pit, Thompson was able 
to assign the tripod mushroom stones (Type D) to the Late Classic San Juan phase 
(600-900 A.D.). This chronological assignment is substantiated by the finds of Gann 
(1939) at Patulul where a plain tripod mushroom stone was found in association with 
a Late Classic burial. Thompson refers to the mushroom stones found at El Batil as 
stone seats. They are reproduced as no 39 in Borhegyi’s chart. The mushroom 
stones are in the private collection of Carlos Herrera at El Baul. 
Spanish version of same: “Tentativa de reconocimiento en el area Maya Meri- 
dional.”” Revista del Instituto de Antropologta e Historia de Guatemala, Vol I, No 2, 
Guatemala, 1949, pp 23-48. See p 35, Pl IVd. Also published by Biblioteca Guate- 
malteca de Cultura Popular. Arqueologia Guatemalteca, Vol XX, Guatemala, 1957, 
pp 23-64. See p 43, Pl IVd. 
Vittacorta, ANTONIO J. C., AND Cartos A. Vittacorta. Arqueologia 
Guatemalteca. Guatemala, 1927. See pp 123-125. 
Illustrates and describes two anthropomorphic mushroom stones (Types A and C) 
with square bases, found in the vicinity of Kaminaljuyu (La Majada) in the Central 
Guatemalan Highlands, and forming part of the local private collection of Don 
Carlos Galluser. The specimen (p 125) with the mushroom cap (Type A) is repro- 
duced as no 4 in Borhegyi’s chart, while the other (p 123, Type C) is illustrated 
as fig train Lothrop, Entry 95, and fig 23d in Heim and Wasson, Entry 2. They are 
described by the Villacortas as fantastic and humorous stone sculptures with mush- 
room-like hats. The present whereabouts of the specimens is unknown. 
Vittacorta, Cartos A. “Sitio arqueolégico de origen Maya-tolteca entre 
Guatemala y Mixco; su exploracién, y ultimas piezas del tipo arcaico alli 
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