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1-3 (3 Records)
The Mopan Valley Preclassic Project has been conducting research at Group D, Xunantunich, a Late Classic elite residential unit with an eastern ancestor shrine. This research has significantly changed our understanding of the establishment and ritual re-use of this group. Recent investigations have revealed Late/Terminal Preclassic constructions including a small courtyard platform and an early structure buried within the Late Classic ancestor shrine. Thousands of ceramic sherds were...
Of Water and Ancestors: Landscapes of Resilience Throughout Aventura’s Long History (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores how water contributed to community resilience throughout centuries of occupation at the Maya site of Aventura, Belize. While human-landscape relations changed with shifting sociopolitical and ecological contexts, water and ancestors remained consistently important. During Classic Period occupation, households...
Same Space Different Face: Recent Investigations at Xunantunich, Group D (2015)
Xunantunich Group D, an elite residential unit, has a fascinating history of construction and reuse between two temporally separated occupations. The group is set apart from other Xunantunich residential units by a sacbe connecting it to the site core and a large ancestor shrine acting as the architectural focal point of the group. The past three years of research at Group D has focused on the Late Classic ancestor shrine and the open courtyard directly in front of the structure with the goal of...