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Ballgame Ritual: Authority and its Transformation during Late Classic Collapse (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcie Venter. Lourdes Budar. Philip J. Arnold III.

One of the characteristic features of the Classic Veracruz style complex is ballgame imagery on ballcourt panels, molded ceramic vessels, paraphernalia such as yokes, hachas and palmas, not to mention the presence of courts, markers, and stelae or other monuments. Various components of the Classic Veracruz style have been documented throughout the Gulf lowlands and adjoining regions of Mesoamerica. Few examples, however, derive from stratigraphic excavations of in situ deposits. In this...


Centers of Exchange: Comparing Virginia's Northern Neck and Maryland's Potomac Valley (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin E Hall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 2016, more than 20 Indigenous sites have been tested in the Northern Neck. Two sites, Baylor and Camden, stand out for the thousands of Indigenous ceramics present. A trend seen nowhere else in the Northern Neck, it is seen at Posey, a site along the Potomac in Maryland. This paper...