Campeche (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El Palmar has garnered considerable attention from researchers, primarily due to its numerous carved monuments. In 1936, Sir Eric Thompson’s exploration initially reported 44 stelae and several altars at its Main Group. However, despite sporadic studies conducted by Tatiana Proskouriakoff and others in subsequent decades, systematic research was lacking,...
Early Political Changes in La Corona: Architecture and Function in the Palace Complex (2018)
Over the past decade, the La Corona Archeological Project has been investigating the site’s palace complex, focusing primarily on its final construction phases. The focus is common in lowland Maya archaeology because of the relative ease of conducting extensive excavations on terminal phase architecture. However, at La Corona, major tunneling efforts have also explored the earlier architectural phases of the palace. As a result, the project has identified three construction phases that date to...
Eccentric Production Techniques and Caching Practices at Xunantunich, Belize (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Ceremonial Lithics of Mesoamerica: New Understandings of Technology, Distribution, and Symbolism of Eccentrics and Ritual Caches in the Maya World and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Though identified at sites throughout Mesoamerica and the Maya Lowlands, eccentric lithics remain poorly understood and understudied. These esoteric artifacts, however, are very important to understanding the ritual expression of...
The Economic Relationships of Epicentral and Peripheral Households at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. (2018)
More than half a century of archaeological and epigraphic research at Piedras Negras has produced one of the best understood epigraphic corpus in the Maya region and provided archaeologists with a plethora of information related to the nature of rulership, courtly life, and the regional political landscape of the Classic Period. Despite this work, questions persist about the economic structure of Piedras Negras households. Here we present the results of recent investigations undertaken at...
Economy and Sociopolitical Change at Classic Period Carcol, Belize (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Ancient Maya Embedded Economies" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maya economic systems were neither static nor simplistic. Research at Caracol, Belize, has shown that the site’s Late Classic inhabitants received the bulk of their goods and services from markets that were embedded within the city. Whereas some researchers have postulated the existence of a dual economic system for the Maya in which quotidian and...
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The Effects of Households and Labor Requirements on Intracommunity Boundary Formation, Settlement Choices, and Neighborhood Functions in Modern and Prehistoric Communities (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cooperation is essential to labor networks in low-density agricultural societies. Household or neighborhood heads must learn to identify, select, and monitor raw materials, and estimate harvest times and transport costs. In addition, kin related groups must nurture allegiances to attract and reciprocate for labor to build houses, farm, and for other communal...
The Effects of Twentieth - Century Globalization on the Built Envrionment of Silvituc, Campeche, Mexico (2007)
To better understand the role of globalization in culture change, this thesis investigates how the growing global economy of the twentieth century has affected the Maya community of Silvituc, Campeche, Mexico, and how those influences are reflected in the archaeological record. By applying both a macro-scale and microscale approach this study demonstrates how wage labor and surrounding land developments, such as the introduction of a highway, have been incorporated into a subsistence-based...
El Achiotal in Context: Settlement and Geopolitics in the Northwest Peten, Guatemala (2018)
This paper presents research carried out by members of the Proyecto Regional Arqueologico La Corona at the site of El Achiotal since 2009, with emphasis on new findings since 2015. Occupation at the site spans the Late Preclassic and Early Classic periods (roughly the 1st to 5th Centuries AD, with the possibility of some earlier occupation). An inscribed stela discovered in 2015 provides critical insight into the geopolitics of the Early Classic period and establishes greater time-depth for some...
"El arroyo suena raro": Las otras esculturas Olmecas de Antonio Plaza, Veracruz (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Antonio Plaza, Veracruz, ubicado en una isla al margen del río Uxpanapa –en medio de las capitales olmecas de San Lorenzo, Veracruz y La Venta, Tabasco- es conocido y señalado como el lugar de origen de uno de los hallazgos más polémicos de la arqueología de la costa del Golfo. Hacemos referencia a la extraordinaria escultura conocida como "El Luchador". No...
El contexto arqueológico del Complejo Escultórico de La Victoria-Matacanela, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz. (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Olmec Manifestations and Ongoing Societal Transformations in the Tuxtlas Uplands: A View from Matacanela" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En 1907 Eduard y Caecilie Seler, visitaron la Finca de Matacanela, ubicada en la porción sureste de la orilla del Lago de Catemaco en Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz. En los terrenos de esta finca, la pareja de alemanes recuperó una serie de monumentos que fueron trasladados a la entrada de la...
El diseño de la actividad. La relación de los petrograbados y los talleres de lítica en la Costa este de Los Tuxtlas (2018)
La Zona Costera del volcán de Santa Marta, al este de Los Tuxtlas, cuenta con la presencia de afloramientos basálticos que fueron aprovechados de diferentes maneras desde el Formativo medio hasta el Clásico tardío. En esta zona, han sido identificado contextos arqueológicos de explotación que corresponden a talleres dedicados a la producción de artefactos de lítica tallada y pulida. Una característica de algunos de estos talleres, es la presencia de petrograbados, algunos con diseños sencillos,...
El entorno sociocultural en los parques arqueológicos de Mérida, Yucatán, México. (2019)
This is an abstract from the "La Práctica Arqueológica en México en Tiempos de Crisis: Escenarios, Problemáticas Claves, Actores, Acciones y Propuestas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A partir de 1970, la expansión de Mérida, propició una demanda de proyectos a partir de rescates y salvamentos arqueológicos. Esto permitió demostrar la ocupación prehispánica por medio de monumentos arqueológicos restaurados en espacios destinados a infraestructura...
El esfuerzo multidisciplinario de Arqueólogos Sin Fronteras del Mundo Maya Propuesta de un Plan para el Desarrollo de la Arqueología (2019)
This is an abstract from the "La Práctica Arqueológica en México en Tiempos de Crisis: Escenarios, Problemáticas Claves, Actores, Acciones y Propuestas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En esta presentación se plantean tres cosas: (1) las problemáticas que se relacionan con la disciplina arqueológica en la península de Yucatán; (2) los grupos y sectores que participan en la búsqueda de su solución; (3) las alternativas y soluciones asi como el...
El Jobillo Settlement Cluster: A Classic Maya Neighborhood? (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Some significant social and spatial units of organization and analysis include neighborhoods, wards and zones. These intermediate scale units are important to understand Maya social organization and integration, especially in dispersed or sparsely populated regions such as La Corona’s in northwest Petén, Guatemala. This paper assesses criteria regarding the...
El Jovero: Investigating Political Frontiers on the Usumacinta River (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Investigations in Chiapas, Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The borders and frontiers of ancient communities provide a rich opportunity to examine the effects of social and political change. These interstitial spaces are often conceptualized as part of a polity body but may be better understood as spaces of continual change and reorganization, positioning these communities as active rather...
El Juego de Pelota en la Huasteca y las Redes Internacionales del Golfo (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Los Rituales del Juego de Pelota en la Costa del Golfo / Ballgame Rituals in the Gulf Lowlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. No es una revelación nueva que exista evidencia arqueológica para el Juego de Pelota en la Huasteca, una región que forma el límite septentrional de Mesoamérica y de la costa del Golfo. Se han documentado canchas de pelota en sitios arqueológicos y figurillas de barro que llevan indumentaria...
El Juego de Pelota y el Juego Político en Teotepec, el sur de Veracruz, México (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Los Rituales del Juego de Pelota en la Costa del Golfo / Ballgame Rituals in the Gulf Lowlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Aunque se considera un pilar del periodo clásico de Veracruz, el juego de pelota mesoamericano está poco documentado en la Sierra de los Tuxtlas del sur de Veracruz, México. Si bien se han identificado las canchas del juego, el conjunto de actividades que se organizan en esos lugares aún no se...
El legado de Ann Cyphers en la arqueología olmeca: Investigación y vinculación comunitaria (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Los trabajos de Ann Cyphers (1950-2023) sobre los olmecas son uno de los legados de la arqueología olmeca, de Mesoamérica y del mundo. A raíz de su fallecimiento, es necesario un recuento de su producción académica. Esta ponencia analiza la obra de Cyphers respecto a sus principales temas, influencias, aportaciones y retos en más de tres décadas de trabajo...
El Modelo Portuario de México como modelo de Administración Arqueológica en México (2019)
This is an abstract from the "La Práctica Arqueológica en México en Tiempos de Crisis: Escenarios, Problemáticas Claves, Actores, Acciones y Propuestas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En esta presentación realzamos la importancia que tienen los sitios arqueológicos de menor tamaño que yacen en ruinas, que por la falta del recurso y políticas del sector público representan un nicho de inversión para la iniciativa privada. De aquí que, la...
El pasado y presente de la meliponicultura de los mayas yucatecos (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Beekeeping: Recent Studies in Ecology, Archaeology, History, and Ethnography in Yucatán" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La meliponicultura yucateca actual experimenta dos realidades contrastantes: por un lado, enfrenta un escenario crítico que poco tiene que ver con el auge del que gozó en el pasado, y por el por el otro, es objeto de algunos esfuerzos por rescatarlo y preservarlo con el fin de evitar su...
El Tajín en tiempos de 13 Conejo: Expresiones de un nuevo estatuto simbólico (ca. 800-1100 dC) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Sculpture of the Ancient Mexican Gulf Coast, Part 2" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Si bien el culto al soberano no podría expresar de mejor manera el carácter sagrado que se le confería de antiguo y el extraordinario poder que se concentraba en su persona, es en El Tajín cuando evoluciona sobre las bases de una ideología de reciente introducción hacia una liturgia ligada a una tradición cultural que en el Epiclásico...
El universo de los guerreros: Tumbas y gobernantes en El Tajín del período Epiclásico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El período Epiclásico en El Tajín, Veracruz, como en buena parte del litoral norte del Golfo de México, se encuentra marcado por una profunda transformación ideológica y por el surgimiento de una clase gobernante que habrá de exaltar los atributos propios de los guerreros. El Complejo Arquitectónico del Edificio de las Columnas, construido en el punto más alto...
An Elite Household in the Late to Terminal Classic Periods at Aventura (2023)
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. This paper examines an elite household, Group 48, at the site of Aventura, Belize. Group 48 is located east and adjacent to Group C, one of the six adjoining plaza groups that form Aventura’s city center. It is also situated at the north end of an intersite causeway and adjacent and south of the proposed salt...
Elite Maya Social Identity at a Hinterland Community: The View from Medicinal Trail, NW Belize (2018)
Social identification is the perception of oneness with, or belongingness to, some human aggregate. The definition of others and self is largely relational and comparative. Archaeologists demonstrate Maya elite identity by comparing them to non-elites in terms of energy expenditure in burial preparation, house and platform construction, access to luxury items, and cranial and dental modifications. Although non-elites include some urban residents and all hinterland residents, this study proposes...