Termination Rituals (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirk Straight.

The excavation of Temple XIX at Palenque, Mexico from 1998-2002 garnered considerable attention primarily for the recovery of monuments with preserved inscriptions and iconography carved in stone and modeled in stucco. The fragmented state of several monuments, evidently victims of systematic mayhem in antiquity, preoccupied the excavators constantly as monument fragments were recovered from inside and outside the approximately 9 by 34 meter building. These monuments have now been consolidated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Newman.

In a certain sense, the Classic Maya royal court can be seen as an expanded, intensified household, a comparative model for which can be found in the "Great Households" of early medieval Europe and elsewhere. Closely linked to governing political structures and notable for their size, complexity, and levels of expenditure and waste, royal courts mimic the patterns of interaction that define the household as an archaeological unit, but on a grander scale. This paper examines ritual at the "Great...