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Hallowed Creatures: A Zoontological Perspective of Human-Animal Interaction in Maya Ritual (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2022)
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This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates ritual engagement with animals from well-documented, previously excavated ritual contexts at four major Maya polities - Baking Pot, Cahal Pech, Lower Dover, and Xunantunich in the Belize River Valley. In contrast to much previous Maya zooarchaeological research, this project takes ritual economy and social zooarchaeology approaches in a multi-sited comparative study to...