Campeche (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

701-725 (933 Records)

Reconceptualizing Chichen Itza: The Gran Acuífero Maya Project (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Guillermo De Anda Alaniz.

During the summer of 2017, the Gran Aquífero Maya (GAM) project initiated an investigation at Chichen Itza designed to define the site around its aquatic resources. The project is based on my previous work at Cenote Holtun, located 1.6 miles west of Chichen Itza, which found that a line drawn between Holtun and Cenote Kanjuyum on the east pasted through the center of El Castillo. It has long been known that El Castillo is bisected by a line drawn between the Sacred Cenote on the north and the...


Reconfiguring Communities in the Postclassic at Aventura (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eponine Wong. Kacey Grauer. Zach Nissen. Debra Walker.

This is an abstract from the "Households at Aventura: Life and Community Longevity at an Ancient Maya City" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations have revealed that Postclassic Aventura was a very different place: both reverentially remembered and a home. In this paper, we review the evidence for human activity during the Postclassic period at Aventura. From identifications of Late Postclassic incensario fragments in surface material...


Reconstructing and Testing Ancient Neighborhoods at Caracol, Belize (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrian Chase.

This is an abstract from the "People and Space: Defining Communities and Neighborhoods with Social Network Analysis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Neighborhoods in the past formed in urban contexts from the bottom-up through repeated face-to-face interactions. Through these shared social experiences and relational identity, neighborhood groups would possess a high potential for collective action, facilitating local solutions to issues facing...


Reconstructing Diachronic Changes in Subsistence, Wealth, and Economic and Ritual Practices through Animal Use at the Classic Maya Polity of Lower Dover, Belize (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Roa. John Walden. Michael Biggie. Gavin Wisner. Rafael Guerra.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maya archaeologists have traditionally used faunal analyses to examine questions about subsistence and ritual practices. We chart diachronic changes in patterns of faunal usage pertaining to four sociocultural dimensions: consumption, economic productions, wealth, and ritual at three districts surrounding the Late Classic (AD 600–900) Maya political center of...


Reconstructing Population Histories in the Gulf Lowlands: Review and Prospect (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Pool. Michael Loughlin.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Mesoamerican Population History: Demography, Social Complexity, and Change" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past three decades the Gulf Lowlands of Mexico have witnessed an explosion of systematically collected archaeological survey data. The Gulf Lowlands, however, present particular challenges for the collection of data, reconstruction of local population histories, and comparison among datasets...


Reconstructing Synchronous Ritual Events in a Central Honduran Chiefdom: An Analysis of Conjoined Artifacts (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Hirth. Susan Hirth. George Hasemann. Gloria Lata-Pinto.

This is an abstract from the "Innovations and Transformations in Mesoamerican Research: Recent and Revised Insights of Ancestral Lifeways" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reconstructing past ritual events is always a challenge under the best of archaeological conditions. Between cal AD 238 and 352 the ancient residents of the site of Salitrón Viejo accumulated an assemblage of carved jade and marble artifacts that were used in a series of ritual...


Reconstructing the Ancient Maya Wetland Fields of the Central Rio Bravo, Belize (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Doyle. Timothy Beach. Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach.

This is an abstract from the "2023 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Timothy Beach Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lidar acquired in 2016 in northwest Belize revealed an expanse of ~7 km2 of ancient Maya raised fields and canals along the Rio Bravo floodplain near the ancient Maya site of Wari Camp. This is half of all the wetland field area found from lidar in this region. Excavations and multiproxy data provide the first...


Recuperando el rompecabeza: Un análisis de la escalera jeroglífica de El Resbalón (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Clara Alexander. Sandra Balanzario. Alexandre Tokovinine.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El asentamiento prehispánico de El Resbalón está ubicado en el sur de Quintana Roo y alberga la segunda escalera jeroglífica más grande conocida en el área Maya. El proyecto “Levantamiento digital de los bienes muebles e inmuebles de los sitios arqueológicos de Dzibanché, Ichkabal y El Resbalón”, en colaboración con el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e...


Redefining the Relationship Between the Surface and the Subterranean at Mul Ch'en Witz, La Milpa, Belize (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Iglesias. Samantha Lorenz. Toni Gonzalez.

One of the many unsettled issues in chultun research is the relationship of chultunes to surface architecture. At Mul Ch’en Witz, located within the large Maya site of La Milpa in northwestern Belize, the chultunes are covered by low, rectangular rubble core platforms so that each is an architectural complex with both a surface and a subterranean component. This degree of formalization of the surface space had not been previously reported until recently at RB-25-A5, a collapsed chultun also...


Rediscovering Ancient Maya Blue Pigments / Redescubriendo los antiguos pigmentos maya (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Manuel May Ku.

This is an abstract from the "Current Dynamics of Heritage Values in the Americas" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El Azul Maya-Maya Ch´oj. Inicié con mi investigación hace aproximadamente dos años atrás tratando de pigmentar mis esculturas y cerámica con el Azul Maya. Tras cuatro meses de buscar la planta Ch´oj (Indigófera suffruticosa mil) al fin dí con ella. Cuando la encontré estaba en su período de floración y fruto, tuve que esperar a que los...


Rediscovering the San Martín Pajapan Volcano in the Gulf Coast of México: An Analysis of its Archaeological Context (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alberto Ortiz Brito.

San Martín Pajapan is one of the most important and prominent volcanos that constitute Los Tuxtlas mountain system of the Gulf Coast of México. From the Preshipanic period to the present time the San Martín Pajapan volcano has been considered a natural place of the landscape with cultural significance, which is indicated by the presence of archaeological remains on its summit. The most remarkable archaeological element of this volcano is a monumental Olmec sculpture, which iconographic...


The Reemergence of Balamku as a First Order Sacred Landmark at Chichen Itza (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Guillermo Gerardo De Alaniz. Karla Ortega.

This is an abstract from the "Studies in Mesoamerican Subterranean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 2018 season, the Gran Aquífero Maya project began exploration of the cave of Balamku, located some 2.4 km east of Chichen Itza's site center. The cave is noteworthy in containing incensarios, manos and metates, and other artifacts identical to those in the back passage of Balankanche, only in greater numbers. The similarity...


A Reexamination of Postclassic Maya Cave Altars along the Central Coast of Quintana Roo (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominique Rissolo.

This is an abstract from the "Studies in Mesoamerican Subterranean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The construction and ceremonial use of miniature temples, or shrines, in caves across the central coastal zone of Quintana Roo, Mexico is a well-documented tradition and one that has received recent scholarly attention. Also common in caves throughout the region was the siting of unenclosed altars in a range of different forms and styles....


Reexamining the Chacmool, One More Time (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Miller.

This is an abstract from the "The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The striking recumbent stone figure known as a chacmool is a defining feature of the Mesoamerican Terminal Classic and Postclassic, occurring not only at Chichen Itza and Tula, where the largest number of figures is documented, but also in later Mexica...


Refugios y rituales: Conflicto en el Fortín Preclásico de Macabilero, Guatemala (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Rodas. Omar Alcover. Mónica Urquizú.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Entre los grupos mayas; fortalezas, armas, y sistemas de murallas defensivas nos indican lo común que era el conflicto en las relaciones sociopolíticas de estas comunidades. En las Tierras Bajas occidentales, fueron pocos los sitios que alcanzaron un alto grado de desarrollo convirtiéndose en grandes centros urbanos para el Clásico. Dentro de la región, una...


Regimes and the Classic Maya Market Economy “Writ Large” (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Arthur Demarest.

This is an abstract from the "Regimes of the Ancient Maya" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The concept of regimes can be critical to the ongoing transformation of understandings of the Classic Maya economy. Currently, many scholars continue to refer to anthropomorphized mythical agents, e.g., exchange between “Tikal” and “Holmul” or between “Cancuen” and “the highlands,” as simply black boxes inhibiting economic research. With populations in the...


Regional Agricultural Potential at the Aguacate Sites, Western Belize (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Fries.

This is an abstract from the "Provisioning Ancient Maya Cities: Modeling Food Production and Land Use in Tropical Urban Environments" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Maya settlements of the Aguacate region of western Belize feature a dispersed settlement pattern spread across a highly varied landscape. Both soil and water resources are unevenly distributed across the region, interspersed with karst outcrops and ridges. Nonetheless,...


Regional Integration during the Late Preclassic in Ucí, Yucatán (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Vallejo-Caliz. Scott Hutson.

Regional integration as materialized by the connections created through sacbeob can widely transform political, economic and social institutions in the participant communities. Perceiving the process through dichotomies such as center-periphery or paramount-subordinate clouds the agency of the multiple stakeholders involved in the matter. Active manipulation of social systems by intermediate elites and the commoner population seems to have had a great influence on the general process of...


Regional Spheres of Gameplay: A Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Patolli, a Mesoamerican Board Game (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tia Watkins. Rosamund Fitzmaurice. Christophe Helmke. Jaroslaw Zralka. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The precolumbian game of patolli was imbued with ideals of competition, risk, and ritual significance. The board game had a widespread presence across Mesoamerica throughout the Classic period (~ AD 250–820) and was often etched into the surfaces of monumental architecture. Recent excavations led by the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance project...


Regional Variation in Preclassic Maya Household Ritual and Social Organization: Investigations at the Karinel Group, Ceibal (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica MacLellan.

This is an abstract from the "Preclassic Maya Social Transformations along the Usumacinta: Views from Ceibal and Aguada Fénix" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigations at the Karinel Group, an early residential area at Ceibal, Guatemala, show that the roles household rituals played in the development of complex societies varied across the Maya lowlands during the Middle Preclassic period (c. 1000-350 BC). In northern Belize, rituals...


Remote Sensing of Constructed Landscapes in Northern Guatemala (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Griffin. Kelsey Herndon. Heather Hurst. Franco Rossi. Boris Beltran.

This is an abstract from the "Innovations and Transformations in Mesoamerican Research: Recent and Revised Insights of Ancestral Lifeways" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Maya sites of San Bartolo and Xultun, Guatemala, provide compelling evidence for ancient Maya agricultural interventions and shifting perspectives about the regional ecological landscape. The first line of evidence is visual: murals there catalog political and religious...


Reorienting Frontiers and Borderlands: Recent Research on the Usumacinta River (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only G. Van Kollias.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Frontiers and borderlands are often conceptualized as places of precarity, where uncertainty characterizes communities outside the purview of authority. In contrast, borders evoke the presence of a reinforced authority where physical and political structures have been put in place to fortify a territory. However, these approaches often simplify or distill...


Residuos químicos en el patio de una unidad habitacional del Clásico Tardío en Chinikihá, Chiapas (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eos López. Mauricio Obregón. Flavio Silva. Luis Barba.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las prácticas que tienen lugar en las unidades habitacionales se relacionan profundamente con procesos que ocurren a escala local y regional (Liendo et al., 2015: 12). El Proyecto Regional Palenque, incluyó el estudio de unidades habitacionales, tomando a los residuos químicos como estrategia para acercarse a las prácticas cotidianas que transforman los...


A Return to Roots: The Maya—Teotihuacan Inscription at Copan’s Temple 26 (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Nuckols-Wilde.

This is an abstract from the "Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-eighth century, Copan’s fifteenth ruler, K’ahk’ Yipyaj Chan K’awiil, oversaw the completion of Structure 10L-26 (or Temple 26), which was crowned with a stone inscription located within the superstructure. This inscription features a parallel display of Maya full-figure glyphs alongside...


Reutilization of Olmec Monuments during the Classic Period in the Gulf Coast of México (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alberto Ortiz Brito.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After excavating Gulf Coast archaeological sites, Alfonso Medellin Zenil affirmed that Olmec monuments were carved during the Late Classic period (600-900 AD). He made this statement two decades after the second round table of the Mexican anthropology society, in which scholars agreed on placing the Olmec culture in the Preclassic period, based on...