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Placing Deathcare: Mortuary Goods and Services in the Landscape of Nineteenth-Century New York State (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annabelle J. Lewis.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For nineteenth century Americans, death played a major social and economic role in daily existence. This poster draws attention to the idea that the life history of mortuary goods begins before they were used in mourning and burial practices. They first had to be manufactured and purchased, extending the networks through which they moved and communicated meaning. Combining archival...

When is Chert More Than Just Chert? Case studies of Elite Distribution of Utilitarian Goods in Northwestern Peten, Guatemala and Western Belize (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Horowitz. Marcello Canuto.

At a basic level, the lowland Classic Maya economy was a complex web of prestige exchange, centralized distribution, and local market economies. In fact, while it is important not to consider the lowland Classic Maya economic system as monolithic, it is also as critical to understand how it articulated with the different levels of social hierarchy. Beyond this, we should also make a point of understanding the roles these specific economic systems played in the distribution of utilitarian goods...