Preclassic to Colonial: Current Investigations in the Petén Lakes Region, Guatemala

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

This session focuses on current archaeological research performed in the Petén lakes region, Guatemala. Speakers will present results from excavations and/or laboratory analyses from several Maya centers dating to different temporal periods from the Preclassic to Colonial period. Recent research has highlighted the diversity of occupation in the region, and papers include in-depth discussions of ceramic, mortuary, and lithic analysis. The objective of this session is to facilitate information exchange among scholars in order to obtain a broader regional perspective on the cultural continuity and change in this area.

Site Name Keywords
Quexil Islands • Trinidad de Nosotros • Tayasal • San Jeronimo II • Ixlu

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Settlements • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Non-Domestic Structures

Other Keywords
Maya • Pottery • Obsidian • Power • bioarchaeology • Art • Zooarchaeology • Iconography • Households • Urbanization

Culture Keywords
CLASSIC LOWLAND MAYA • Itza Maya • Postclassic Maya

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Collections Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Ethnographic Research • Architectural Documentation

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Building Materials • Obsidian • architecture • fineware ceramics

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica • United Mexican States (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Belize (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country) • Guatemala (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Maya lowlands, Petén, Guatemala • Peten Lakes region • Lake Peten Itza Basin

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Documents

Animal Use at Nixtun-Ch'ich': Preclassic Canids, Postclassic Crocodiles, and Contact Period Cows (2016)

Art Objects Don’t Make Themselves! A Consideration of the Ik’ Style from the Petén Lakes Region (2016)

The Bioarchaeology of Colonization and Missionization at San Bernabé, Lake Petén Itzá (2016)

Costly Signaling, Cost Masking, and the Classic-Postclassic Transition: Slipped Ceramics and other Media in the Context of the Petén Lakes Region, Guatemala. (2016)

Household Economies in the Petén Lakes Region: Late Classic Ceramic Assemblages from Trinidad de Nosotros and Xilil (2016)

The More Things Change: Similarities and Differences in Pastes from Preclassic and Postclassic Pottery in the Western Petén Lakes (2016)

New Data on the Urban Grid at Nixtun-Ch’ich’, Petén, Guatemala (2016)

Obsidian Artifacts and Community Interactions at Tayasal (2016)

Power and Polity in the Motul de San José Zone: Recent Research at Kantet’u’ul and Chachaklu’um (2016)

Ramparts and Channels: Defensive and Hydraulic Architecture at Muralla de León (2016)

Terminal Classic to Early Contact Period Obsidian in the Petén Lakes Region: Inter- and Intra-Site Variation of Raw Materials (2016)