Maya, Mesoamerica (Geographic Keyword)
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Abstract of associated paper: Sinkholes contributed to persistent human inhabitation of the northern Yucatán peninsula of Mexico for more than two millennia. Building on previous work on the use of sinkholes central to the town of Tahcabo and elsewhere in the Maya area, this study presents pollen, soil carbon isotope, radiocarbon, and artifactual evidence from four geomorphic features. They include the perennially wet cenote situated in the town center and three dry sinkholes (rejolladas)...
Proyecto Arqueológico Colaborativo del Oriente de Yucatán
Research into farmers livelihoods and sinkholes near and in Tahcabo, Calotmul, Yucatán, Mexico.
A queer phenomenology of the penis: Disorienting Sex and Gender in Maya Archaeology (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Deviations: Archaeologies of Sexuality Beyond the Heteronormative", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. How do representations of the body and the penis orient understandings of sex and gender? This paper utilizes queer theoretical perspectives on bodies and phenomenology to reconsider archaeological orientations to the penis. Phenomenological perspectives investigate the experience of living in a body and how...