Peten (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
276-300 (1,039 Records)
Above, perforated peccary tusk and two bone tubes. Below, eight pendants cut from white marine shell, part of a necklace found with Burial 121.
Color Plate 3 (2008)
Incised obsidians.
Color Plate 30 (2008)
Carved pendant of Spondylus shell, one of a pair, and one of a pair of Spondylus shell bead bracelets with polished bone clasps, from Burial 167.
Color Plate 31 (2008)
Large unworked stingray spine with traces of red pigment. Two parts of a composite pendant of cut nacreous shell with a large, round pearl bead-pendant between them, from Burial 116.
Color Plate 32 (2008)
A display of ornaments from Burial 196, Tikal Museum, 1968. From the top, jade diadem, pair of smaller composite jade ear ornaments, carved jade bead with diving figures, multi-strand necklace of pearl bead-pendants, pair of larger jade and shell composite ear ornaments, pair of bracelets of collared cylindrical jade beads.
Color Plate 33 (2008)
Shell trumpet from Problematical Deposit 7, scallop shell perforated for suspension from Burial 10, and an unworked Spondylus shell from Burial 116.
Color Plate 34 (2008)
A display of jade ornaments and Spondylus shells found with Burial 116, Tikal Museum, 1964. Note the large shell set over the top of the skull, the worked valves arranged over and along the body, and the unworked shell near the right ankle. Jade ornaments shown are a diadem, composite ear ornaments, a necklace of long beads with square sections, a necklace of graduated large pebble beads, bracelets and anklets of long cylinder beads, and scattered pebble beads.
Color Plate 35 (2008)
The upper portion of a long, carved bone object from the set of inscribed and plain bones from Burial 116. It is heavily coated with red cinnabar pigment.
Color Plate 36 (2008)
A battered minor sculpture of the head of a deity carved of dolomite, from Group 5D-11, the Central Acropolis.
Color Plate 4 (2008)
A set of Class 8 incised obsidians.
Color Plate 5 (2008)
Head of a mosaic statuette from Cache 43.
Color Plate 6 (2008)
Head of a mosaic statuette from Cache 140A.
Color Plate 7 (2008)
Reconstructed mosaic statuette from Cache 197.
Color Plate 8 (2008)
One of a pair of mosaic earflares from Burial 10.
Color Plate 9 (2008)
Stone and Spondylus shell mosaic mask from Burial 160.
Commemorating the Preclassic Monumental Construction at Tayasal, Guatemala (2018)
Research into the Main Group at Tayasal, Guatemala, revealed that the Postclassic inhabitants re-occupied areas and buildings that were constructed during the Preclassic period. Most of those buildings in the Main Group stand on a massive elevated platform, which was also constructed during the Preclassic period. The Preclassic period was the period during which the construction of monumental architecture such as E-groups and Triadic Group occurred at numerous sites including Tayasal. It was...
Communing with the Gods: The Paleoethnobotany of Fire Rituals (2018)
The importance of fire in Maya rituals is well-known, both archaeologically and ethnographically. Fire, which is symbolic of the life cycle in Maya ideology, has been used as a means of communicating with the supernatural world in order to manage specific aspects of everyday life, such as the success of the agricultural season. In the archaeological record, we find evidence for ancient fires as features consisting mostly of burnt plant remains, some of which resemble modern Maya fire altars both...
Community and Collaboration 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. With a five millennia history spanning forager-horticulturalist, precolumbian Maya, historic, and contemporary periods, Aventura is a community with a long history. The Aventura Archaeology Project addresses community at many levels, in its study of the past and in its collaboration with local cultural heritage...
Community Archaeology and (Post)Colonial Identities in Northernmost Belize (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the "who/what" that constitutes "the local community" in engaged community archaeologies. It will do so by discussing community events organized by the Aventura Archaeology Project, as well as preliminary ethnographic and oral historical work I have conducted in the San Joaquin Village and Corozal Town areas of northernmost Belize. This...
Community Archaeology and the Production of Space at Punta Laguna, Yucatan, Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have considered the relationships between the production of space and the production of social inequality in past societies. Those practicing community and other forms of engaged archaeology have also examined the relationships between the production of space and inequality in the present, including at archaeological sites developed for tourism....
Community Building and Engagement through Maya Archaeology: Challenges, Successes, and Future Goals for the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance (BVAR) Project (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community building through education and public outreach has been a central component of the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance (BVAR) Project since its inception over 30 years ago. One of our primary goals is to actively engage with local communities and students in archaeological heritage management in western Belize since they are the most impacted...
Community Engagement in Archaeology through Photogrammetry (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry is a rapidly-evolving technology that is applicable to a wide array of archaeological contexts and reconstructions. Researchers affiliated with the Proyecto Arqueológico Waka’ (PAW) at the site of El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala, initiated a program of photogrammetric recording of stelae during the 2018 season. In this process, a series of...
Community Formation through Movement: Focal Nodes and Community Landscapes of the Mopan River Valley, Belize (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Manifesting Movement Materially: Broadening the Mesoamerican View" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Movement is often implicitly assumed when exploring the ancient makeup of communities. We conceptualize movement at different scales of interaction – at the hyperlocal through households, as well as between and across communities, polities, and landscapes. Here, I will explore how movement to/from focal nodes on a...
A Comparative Bioarchaeology of Health and Status in Pre-Classical K’axob and Cuello (2018)
This paper explores whether there is a statistical difference in rates of non-specific infection between two Maya pre-classic villages, K’axob and Cuello, and whether these findings can be correlated to social status within and between the two villages. Using representative skeletal samples from these populations, an osteological analysis is performed to determine the presence of non-specific infection markers in the form of periosteal reactions. Any signs of reaction are scored by level of...
Comparative Stable Isotopic Analyses between Dental Enamel and Bone Collagen among Central American Archaeological Samples Spanning 8,000 Years (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Advances in Interdisciplinary Isotopic Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen stable isotope analyses are popular tools within the field of archaeology. Applications for stable isotope analyses of human and faunal bone collagen and dental enamel include environmental reconstructions, modeling subsistence patterns, and investigating human-animal relationships, as well as potential to...