Classic Maya (Culture Keyword)
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This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.
DDIG - Spatial Organization Within A Traditional Political System: ICPMS Raw Data (2017)
This spreadsheets contains the results of the ICP/MS analysis of the 328 samples of stucco floors collected at the Classic Maya Site of La Corona, Guatemala, in June 2016, by Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, the co-PI of the NSF DDIG entitled Spatial Organization Within A Traditional Political System (Award ID: 1623787). The current dataset is uploaded to tDAR in compliance to the data management plan approved by the NSF. The stucco were sampled by the Laboratory for Anthropogenic Soils Research,...
MesoRAD v.1.4 (2021)
The Mesoamerican Radiocarbon (MesoRAD) database compiles radiocarbon dates and isotopic data from archaeological sites in across Mesoamerica. The initial dataset from MesoRAD is a compilation of 14C dates from the Maya lowlands. We will be expanding the database to other parts of Mesoamerica soon. If you would like to submit your data to MesoRAD, please visit our website for more information: http://www.mesorad.com
Plaza Size Dataset: Metadata. Supplemental Material for Ossa et al. (2017)
Metadata to accompany the excel file containing information on plaza area and population for Mesoamerican cities
Plaza sizes for Mesoamerican cities (2017)
Plaza area and population for Postclassic Mesoamerican cities analyzed in: Ossa, Alanna, Michael E. Smith, and José Lobo (2017). The Size of Plazas in Mesoamerican Cities: A Quantitative Analysis and Social Interpretation. Latin American Antiquity 28(4): 457-475.
PROTEIN ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITE LACANJÁ TZELTAL, CHIAPAS, MEXICO (2019)
Lacanjá Tzeltal is a Classic Period Maya site located in Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico. A cache containing artifacts was recovered beneath a large limestone altar, situated in the center of a ballcourt (Andrew Scherer, personal communication, November 29, 2019). One chert spear point and two obsidian blades from the cache were submitted for protein residue (CIEP) analysis to determine if the tools were used on plants or animals prior to being deposited in the cache.
Shaping Space: Built Space, Landscape, and Cosmology in Four Regions (2010)
In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.
Social Reactors Project datasets
Datasets from various publications of the Social Reactors Project