Peten (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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The northern Belize prehistoric Maya site of Colha was first archaeologically documented by the Corozal Project in the early 1970s. The most significant archaeological research at the site was conducted as The Colha Project (1979-1983), with subsequent projects of specialized interests (1994-2017). Though known primarily for its lithic dimension as a major production and distribution center of stone tools, many other aspects of Maya society have been identified from the numerous seasons of...
Collective Biographies: Ancient Maya Objects in Collections, Past and Present (2018)
This paper explores the collecting, repositioning, and separating of ancient Maya objects, both in the ancient past and the twentieth century. Archaeological context provides evidence of ancient Maya aggregation of disparate objects in tombs, caches, or sculptural tableaux as well as evidence of repositioning or separating things. These changes are fundamental aspects of objects’ life histories. Yet in the twentieth century, ancient monuments and object sets also have been divided -- and new...
Colonial and Caste War Continuities in the Beneficios Altos Province of Yucatán (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Caste War of Yucatán has been referred to as "the most successful Indian revolt in New World history." Scholars have attributed the origins of this important conflict to a variety of causes, including circumstances that arose as Mexico established its independence from Spain; late colonial period political reforms; policies in...
The Colonial Peten: An Ethnohistory of Indigenous Sovereignty and a Failed Spanish Colonial Project (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Disentanglement: Reimagining Early Colonial Trajectories in the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colonialism—to speak generally—can be characterized as endeavors that aim not just to entangle, but to wholly incorporate, disparate regions under the control of a foreign body. Indigenous disentanglement from these exploitative projects has taken many forms—daily negotiations, subtle refusals, outright rebellions....
Color Plate 1 (2008)
Class 2 and 3 eccentrics of medium-quality, light-colored local chert and fine, brown imported chert.
Color Plate 10 (2008)
Jade encrusted jars and lids from Burial 116, left, and Burial 196, right.
Color Plate 11 (2008)
Inscription on the lid of the jar from Burial 116.
Color Plate 12 (2008)
Minor sculpture in jade of a jaguar from Burial 196.
Color Plate 13 (2008)
Jaguar minor sculpture in situ in Burial 196. The worked Spondylus valve and jade beads are ones of several distributed along the body.
Color Plate 14 (2008)
Jade minor sculpture of a seated man from Burial 116.
Color Plate 15 (2008)
View of some of the contents of Burial 10.
Color Plate 16 (2008)
Large jade earflares and beads from chamber burials.
Color Plate 17 (2008)
Jade pendants from chamber burials and a temple cache. From left, Burial 10, Cache 140A, Burial 23, Burial 10. Burial 10, and at lower right, Burial 24.
Color Plate 18 (2008)
The backs of the jade pendants shown in 17.
Color Plate 19 (2008)
Jade pendants from burials and a temple cache. Upper row, Burial 10, Cache 140A, lower row, Burial 24.
Color Plate 2 (2008)
Class 1E eccentrics of obsidian.
Color Plate 20 (2008)
Jade pendant and carved beads from Burial 10.
Color Plate 21 (2008)
Ear ornaments. Small flare from a burial or a cache. Right, large jade earflare shown without its throat disk, and left, large earflare of marbled dark green stone, probably unfinished, both from Burial 10.
Color Plate 22 (2008)
Head of Burial 196 at excavation with an in situ diadem of jade disks, composite ear ornaments, necklace of long, carved beads, and scattered jade pebble beads. The reddish tinge is from cinnabar pigment.
Color Plate 23 (2008)
Long, four-sided bead of jade carved with a diving figure on each face, traces of cinnabar pigment, Burial 196.
Color Plate 24 (2008)
Carved jade pendant from Burial 77.
Color Plate 25 (2008)
Celt-shaped pendant from Cache 209.
Color Plate 26 (2008)
Serpentine mask with Spondylus shell inlays from Burial 85.
Color Plate 27 (2008)
Carved bowl of calcite (tecalli) from Burial 196.
Color Plate 28 (2008)
Minor sculpture of crouching figure of soft, dark green stone from Burial 167.