Classic Maya (Other Keyword)
26-28 (28 Records)
Since 2011, a program of surveying and mapping together with a series of more than 80 test pits have been conducted during four field seasons around the monumental epicenter of Naachtun, over a large residential area covering approximately 175 ha. These programs resulted in an accurate map of constructed and empty spaces, and in a relatively complete sequence of the site's occupation, from the very onset of the Early Classic to the Terminal Classic. The first objective of these investigations is...
Under the Cover of Night: The Liminal Landscape in Ancient Maya Thought (2016)
For the ancient Maya, the landscape was wild, untamed, and dotted with caves, which were the darkest of spaces. On an empirical level, caves can reveal the ancient Maya experience of intimate darkness and nullified senses. Such experience belonged to the night, which was fraught with danger, temporally distant, and inhabited by a cast of anti-social beings. These beings belonged to the wilderness and dark forests that lacked internal order and spatial division. Much like the concept of chaos in...
Visualizing Death: Representations of Death and Rebirth on an Early Classic Maya Mid-Level Elite Burial Vessel from Uxul, Mexico (2016)
Excavations during the 2014 field season at the Maya site of Uxul in Campeche, Mexico revealed an Early Classic ceramic burial vessel that was embellished with hieroglyphic elements and contained an infant skeleton. The hieroglyphic elements on the vessel body and lid visually represent the underworld and feature components of larger phrases that are used in Classic Maya monumental and ceramic texts to record processes of death and renewal. The occurrence of both iconographic and hieroglyphic...