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Monumental architecture at Aguada Fénix and the rise of Maya civilization.

Takeshi Inomata, Daniela Triadan, Verónica A Vázquez López, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz, Takayuki Omori, María Belén Méndez Bauer, Melina García Hernández, Timothy Beach, Clarissa Cagnato, Kazuo Aoyama and 1 more

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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Takeshi InomataSchool of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. inomata@arizona.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5236-5613
Daniela TriadanSchool of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Verónica A Vázquez LópezDepartment of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Juan Carlos Fernandez-DiazNational Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3703-7555
Takayuki OmoriUniversity Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
María Belén Méndez BauerEstudios Mesoamericanos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
Melina García HernándezMiddle Usumacinta Archaeological Project, Balancán, Mexico.
Timothy BeachDepartment of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
Clarissa CagnatoUMR 8096, Archéologie des Amériques, Nanterre, France.
Kazuo AoyamaFaculty of Humanities, Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan.
Hiroo NasuFaculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Archaeologists have traditionally thought that the development of Maya civilization was gradual, assuming that small villages began to emerge during the Middle Preclassic period (1000-350 BC; dates are calibrated throughout) along with the use of ceramics and the adoption of sedentism

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