Quintana Roo, Mexico (Other Keyword)
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Postclassic Chen Muls are known as effigy censers, or incensarios. It is suggested that these effigy censers were placed at the foot of an altar and were used in ceremonial shrines during rituals of renewal (Thompson 1957). The 2014 Cochuah Regional Archaeological Survey recovered a collection of Postclassic Chen Mul fragments from excavations at four sites in the project area: San Felipe, San Francisco, Venadito, and the Fortín de Yo’okop. Excavations at these four sites did not recover whole...
Twenty Years of Historical Archaeology in the Yalahau and Costa Escondida Regions (2017)
Since the mid-1990s, members of the Yalahau and Costa Escondida projects have focused on historical archaeology in northern Quintana Roo. Our research has examined the remnants of the chicle (chewing gum), sugar cane and small-batch rum industries from the late 1800s. Although these sites are relatively recent, the production equipment and other artifacts have been picked through by later occupants, making it challenging to be able to reconstruct the historic record. In an attempt to overcome...