The Strange Bedfellows of Northern Belize: British Colonialists, Confederate Dreamers, Creole Loggers, and the Caste War Maya of the Late Nineteenth Century
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DOI: 10.1007/s10761-018-0461-6
Abstract: Following the U.S. Civil War, groups of ex-Confederates arrived in Belize as clashes with Caste War Maya reached their peak, resulting in more frequent Maya raiding of British and Creole logging camps. Cross-examining ethnohistoric and… read more here.
Keywords: maya; war; caste war; war maya ... See more keywords
From the Streets: Public and Private Space in an Early Maya City
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DOI: 10.1007/s10816-018-9404-0
Abstract: Modern life in cities involves perpetual tensions between private and public spaces evoking the question whether such tensions existed when cities first emerged. This paper investigates such tensions at the lowland Maya site of Nixtun-Ch’ich’… read more here.
Keywords: space; city; public spaces; maya ... See more keywords
Gradual Changes in Early Colonial-Period Maya Ceramics in Northern Yucatan
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DOI: 10.1007/s41636-021-00308-1
Abstract: Indigenous pottery traditions and other material aspects of daily life in Yucatan were slow to change during the early colonial period. This conservativism reflects a gradual rate of social change at the community scale as… read more here.
Keywords: yucatan; early colonial; maya; colonial period ... See more keywords
Ancient Maya water management, agriculture, and society in the area of Chactún, Campeche, Mexico
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101261
Abstract: Abstract Three major Maya centers recently discovered in the northern part of the uninhabited Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in eastern Campeche, Mexico, provided the first archaeological information obtained in an extensive, formerly unexplored area in the… read more here.
Keywords: campeche mexico; water; water management; area ... See more keywords
Ancient Maya manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) consumption: Starch grain evidence from late to terminal classic (8th–9th century CE) occupation at La Corona, northwestern Petén, Guatemala
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.09.035
Abstract: Abstract Recent research in some parts of the Maya world supports the idea that the ancient Maya consumed manioc; yet what remains unclear are the more regional and local patterns of use. In this research… read more here.
Keywords: late terminal; maya; ancient maya; manioc manihot ... See more keywords
Multianalytical characterization of pigments from funerary artefacts belongs to the Chupicuaro Culture (Western Mexico): Oldest Maya blue and cinnabar identified in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
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DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2019.104101
Abstract: Abstract The colours used in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica to decorate walls, codices or artefacts have been the subject of numerous studies, with particular attention to Maya blue, red and white pigments. However, most of these studies… read more here.
Keywords: maya; cinnabar; western mexico; chupicuaro culture ... See more keywords
RECYCLING AND RECONFIGURING: METALWORK OF MAYA COMMUNITIES AT LAMANAI AND TIPU, BELIZE
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DOI: 10.1017/s0956536116000365
Abstract: Abstract Analysis of the two largest southern Maya lowland metal assemblages, from Lamanai (n = 187) and Tipu (n = 99), Belize reveals that Mesoamerican and European technologies were negotiated through the processes of recycling… read more here.
Keywords: tipu belize; maya communities; maya; metallurgy ... See more keywords
BUILDING AN EARLY MAYA COMMUNITY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT CAOBAL, GUATEMALA
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DOI: 10.1017/s0956536117000050
Abstract: Abstract Archaeological investigations at the minor center of Caobal provide clues about local traditions of civic-ceremonial architecture as well as the relationship between these buildings and broader social and political transformations during the Preclassic period.… read more here.
Keywords: archaeological investigations; early maya; maya; building early ... See more keywords
NEW EVIDENCE FOR POLITICAL HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE NORTHERN MAYA LOWLANDS (a.d. 600–1000)
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DOI: 10.1017/s0956536117000207
Abstract: Abstract This paper presents new evidence for hierarchy and power among the Classic Maya (a.d. 300–1000) from the northern lowlands. It expands the list of identified emblem glyphs, and, more particularly, focuses on emblems with… read more here.
Keywords: new evidence; hierarchy power; maya; evidence political ... See more keywords
REDUCING RISK: MAYA LITHIC PRODUCTION AND ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION AT CALLAR CREEK QUARRY, BELIZE
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DOI: 10.1017/s0956536120000462
Abstract: The role of craft producers in past economies provides information that helps contextualize the role of economies in broader sociopolitical systems. Through this examination of lowland Maya lithic producers in the Late to Terminal Classic… read more here.
Keywords: maya; risk; maya lithic; quarry belize ... See more keywords
COMPLEXITY, FUNCTION, AND RURALITY: PREHISTORIC MAYA COMMUNITIES OF NORTHWEST BELIZE
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DOI: 10.1017/s0956536120000516
Abstract: Abstract The northwest region of Belize, known as the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA), is a research set-aside of interest for investigating hinterland communities of the prehistoric Maya. The hinterland or rural communities… read more here.
Keywords: maya; function; northwest belize; region ... See more keywords