Mesoamerica: Maya Lowlands (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flavio Silva De La Mora.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent research in the Maya Lowlands, particularly in Chiapas and Tabasco, has shed new light on the regional patterns and social practices of Late Classic Maya society. This presentation will build upon these findings by delving into the lithic materials unearthed from archaeological work at the site of Chinikihá. The focus will be on the significance of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Santiago Sobrino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The following paper offers a new proposal for the reading and interpretation of the Stela 2 of Chichen Itza, a flat limestone 2.11 meter tall monument discovered in the late 90s by the late Dr. Peter Schmidt. The monument presents a middle register composed by 32 glyph blocks in an advanced state of erosion, a feature that prevented most epigraphers from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Gutiérrez Ortega.

This is an abstract from the "Nuevos datos de la dinastía Kaanu’l en el Clasico Temprano de la tierras bajas mayas: Proyecto Promeza Dzibanche/Kaanu’l 2023-2024." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Desde la década de los 90's la Zona Arqueológica de Dzibanché, localizada en el Estado mexicano de Quintana Roo, ha registrado una amplia variedad de entierros humanos prehispánicos mayas en distintos contextos: desde espacios domésticos, entierros de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Zazueta.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient Maya used to prepare the body of their deceased family members for its proper cycling according to long-standing family traditions and more collective ideas, anchored in Indigenous beliefs of the sublime vivifying qualities of colors and fragrant matter in communicating with the anecumene of the divine. Such an entity was the itz sap, a sacred...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Kiker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 2000s, the Belize Institute of Archaeology has been expending considerable effort to enhance the tourism potential of its archaeological sites, to contribute to heritage education in rural areas of the country, and to provide information that can be used by tourism stakeholders. To assist these Belizean initiatives, archaeologists from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Hageman.

This is an abstract from the "Sessions in Honor of Dr. Fred Valdez Jr. and His Contributions to Archaeology, Part 2" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeobotanical studies in northwestern Belize were facilitated by the acquisition of a Flote-Tech A flotation machine by Dr. Fred Valdez, Jr. for the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project. This machine allowed for the quick and consistent processing of samples and helped create broader...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Kollmann.

This is an abstract from the "From Origins to Collapses:  New Insights in the Cultural and Natural Processes of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological excavations over the span of several decades within the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin have recovered human remains from a variety of chronological periods, ranging from the Middle Preclassic to the Late Classic periods. However, of the 98 samples submitted to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Morales-Aguilar.

This is an abstract from the "From Origins to Collapses:  New Insights in the Cultural and Natural Processes of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses the archaeological findings at Chacte, a significant Preclassic suburban site associated with El Mirador in Peten, Guatemala. Strategically located to control southern routes to El Mirador, Chacte was crucial in the sociopolitical and economic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Weston Hansen.

This is an abstract from the "From Origins to Collapses:  New Insights in the Cultural and Natural Processes of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Weston R. Hansen, Megan Whitehead, Richard D. Hansen Archaeological excavations in the Trogon Group of the Tigre Complex in the Preclassic Maya site of El Mirador have yielded new information relevant to early architectural formats and burial practices of the Preclassic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Parker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of value as a theoretical framework has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, with studies ranging from a focus on commodity value and inalienability, to analyses of the nature of ritual economy and studies of “the good life.” Yet a theory of value can also play an integral role in conceptualizing how and why inequality is manifested in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marilyn Masson.

This is an abstract from the "Northern Belize Archaic Period and Sahara Dust" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analysis of a large sample of Late Archaic tools from the multi-year Belize Archaic Project at Progresso Lagoon provides an updated assessment of formal (and especially) informal flake tools utilized by Preceramic peoples extensively occupying the lagoon shore. Primarily from habitation sites, this analysis assesses the types of activities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Balanzario.

This is an abstract from the "Nuevos datos de la dinastía Kaanu’l en el Clasico Temprano de la tierras bajas mayas: Proyecto Promeza Dzibanche/Kaanu’l 2023-2024." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nuevos datos de la dinastía Kaanu'l en el Clásico Temprano de las tierras bajas mayas. Proyecto Dzibanché/Kaanu'l 2023-2024. Los datos epigráficos actuales, sugieren que el nombre de Dzibanché, es Kaanu’l “lugar de serpientes” y sus gobernantes fueron los...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Berenice García Vázquez.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Investigations in Maya Archaeology, Epigraphy, Bioarchaeology, and Zooarchaeology by the Holmul Archaeological Project in Northeastern Peten, Guatemala" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Se presentan los datos resultantes de las temporadas de excavaciones más recientes en el basamento del Grupo I de Holmul, en el Edificio D, al centro del mismo y de la Ruina X ubicada en la plaza al este del Grupo I. La secuencia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Estrada-Belli.

This is an abstract from the "Nuevos datos de la dinastía Kaanu’l en el Clasico Temprano de la tierras bajas mayas: Proyecto Promeza Dzibanche/Kaanu’l 2023-2024." session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Se reportan los resultados de las excavaciones en las estructuras Tutil 1, 5 y 6 en la Plaza Tutil, uno de los cuatro complejos monumentales mayores del centro urbano de Dzibanche/Kaanu’l, realizadas en el marco del Proyecto Dzibanche/PROMEZA....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ava Godhardt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 2024 field season, excavations at Group M of the Medicinal Trail Hinterland Community, an ancient Maya village in northwestern Belize, revealed a concentration of over 1000 ceramic sherds against the western wall of Structure M-3. Group M is a non-residential architectural group located at the northern terminus of the community, situated on a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Parfitt.

This is an abstract from the "Current Methods and Applications to Chert Sourcing: Case Studies from Across the Americas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study utilized a systematic, multi-pronged approach to assess lithic raw material representation at six large, early Paleoindian-period sites in the Great Lakes and New England-Maritimes regions. A wide-ranging comparative database of lithic sources from within and outside of the region was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "Repositioning Altar de Sacrificios on the Ancient Maya Landscape" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Flaked and ground stone from ancient Maya domestic contexts continue to offer fundamental insights into domestic activities. Additionally, geological attributes of lithic materials generally afford the analysis of regional trade by contrasting local versus regionally accessible materials. Applying classification criteria...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daunte Ball.

This is an abstract from the "From Origins to Collapses:  New Insights in the Cultural and Natural Processes of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From a social memory perspective, the act of erecting and constructing symbolic monumental architectural works is an inherently ideological practice. For the ancient Maya, while it is long understood that innovative architectural traditions were used to bind emerging...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yasmine Flynn-Arajdal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the critical processes in the shaping of identity in any society is the breast feeding and early childhood food consumption practices that help define stages of infancy, age, gender, regional, and cultural senses of self. An important rite of passage in childhood is weaning, a process that includes the gradual removal of the mother’s milk as well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Rosenswig.

This is an abstract from the "Northern Belize Archaic Period and Sahara Dust" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The 8,000 years before ceramic first appear is the longest epoch in the human occupation of Mesoamerica when domestication and sedentary life changed how the inhabitants of the region lived. Yet, despite the importance of changing adaptation, Mesoamerica’s Archaic period is known from only a handful of site, and most of these are caves and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriel Wrobel.

This is an abstract from the "The Maritime Maya: Current Archaeology of Coastal Yucatan, Mexico, and Belize" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reviews previously published skeletal studies from coastal sites in Mexico and Belize, focusing on diet, health, population structure, and preliminary genetic data. Bioarchaeological research in these regions has provided unique insights into the biocultural adaptations of the Maya to coastal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Savanna Agardy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In April 2024, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), Belizean non-profit Friends for Conservation and Development, and the Institute of Archaeology conducted a technical visit to the vast and remote Chiquibul Cave System (CCS). Located in Cayo District of Belize, the CCS totals approximately 65 kilometers and contains not only outstanding karstic geology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Balcarcel.

This is an abstract from the "From Origins to Collapses:  New Insights in the Cultural and Natural Processes of the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The architecture of the acropolis-type complexes of triadic pattern permeates the Preclassic environment in several important cities of the Maya area. These complexes, despite presenting different orientations, dimensions and typology, maintain a typical distribution of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlin Ahern.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Investigations in Maya Archaeology, Epigraphy, Bioarchaeology, and Zooarchaeology by the Holmul Archaeological Project in Northeastern Peten, Guatemala" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cival is a large Preclassic period site occupied between 800 BCE and 300 CE. It served as the regional capital of the Holmul region from 300 BC until the city was attacked around AD 200. The Holmul Archaeological Project first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Sharpe.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Investigations in Maya Archaeology, Epigraphy, Bioarchaeology, and Zooarchaeology by the Holmul Archaeological Project in Northeastern Peten, Guatemala" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The large site of Holmul and its neighboring centers lay at the heart of the lowland Maya region, and were together involved in related ceremonial activities throughout the Preclassic and Classic periods. This paper reviews 24...