Postclassic Maya (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kevin Schwarz.

Costly signaling theory indicates that highly visible acts of public generosity and display, which exact costs not easily recouped, however, can provide social benefits to those engaged in such acts. Such signaling is associated with the strength or fitness of the provider. Analyzing slipped and fineware ceramics in display contexts, and obsidian use and architecture, this presentation explores how Maya elites and rural sub-elites engaged in costly signaling and modified their actions by cost...

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Report to INAH of 2015 seasons that investigated rural houses of the Terminal Classic and Postclassic period in the Mayapan area (outside of the city walls). A follow-up project to the 2013 LiDAR season (in Spanish).

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Report to INAH of 2001-2004 seasons of survey, surface collection, test-pitting and horizontal excavation of residential zone of Mayapan (in Spanish).

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Report to INAH of 2008-2009 seasons of horizontal excavations in the urban residential zone of Mayapan, including residences, workshops, and a temple and hall at the outlying ceremonial group of Itzmal Ch'en (in Spanish).

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An edited compilation of contributions by members of the Mayapan archaeological team from the U.S. and Mexico, pertaining to research from 2001-2009. Survey, household archaeology, monumental archaeology, and analyses of various artifact classes (more developed research than available in the informes). Book is open access, online, and it is bilingual (English and Spanish).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...