The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
While Honduras might be best known for the ancient Maya city of Copan, the lands of this country were also home to a diversity of cultures with distinctly non-Maya identities. In the case of all of these cultures, both Maya and non-Maya, less focus has been provided to them during what is known as the Postclassic period (900-1500) in the Copan Valley, and the latter half of the Selin Phase (600-1000, Period VI-a), and the Cocal Phase (1000-1500, Period VI-b) outside the Maya area. This session draws together researchers investigating the cultures of Honduras from AD 900-1500, in the hopes that more can be understood about the similarities and differences of the people that called these lands home in the centuries leading up to the arrival of Europeans. Of particular interest are the trade relationships between these ancient Catrachos and the unique identities that are expressed in the artifacts they created and the structures and centers that they built.
Other Keywords
Maya: Postclassic •
Trade and exchange •
Ceramic Analysis •
Collapse •
Lithic Analysis: Obsidian •
Obsidian Analysis •
Material Culture and Technology •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis •
Postclásico en Honduras
Geographic Keywords
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Republic of Guatemala (Country) •
Department of Martinique (Country) •
Department of Guadeloupe (Country) •
Antigua and Barbuda (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
Anguilla (Country) •
Republic of Honduras (Country) •
St. Lucia (Country) •
Montserrat (Country)
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The Beginning of a New Epoch: The Transition to Post-dynastic Life in Río Amarillo, Copán Valley, Honduras (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Contrary to what is reported for post-dynastic Copan, where evidence supports abandonment and reoccupation of the area by a new population, in the Río Amarillo area of the eastern section of the Copan Valley ceramic evidence supports a continual occupation that clearly displays an overlap of types and modes from both Late Classic and...
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The Obsidian of Postclassic Rio Amarillo: A Shift in Population or Technology? (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rather diminutive site of Rio Amarillo, located to the north of the Copan city center, is well known as a subsidiary site that was somehow involved in the movement of goods between the Motagua and Copan Valleys. After the collapse of the Copan Dynasty, large civic-ceremonial structures were abandoned and the people that remained,...
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Reconsideración de Las Fuentes de Aprovisionamiento de Obsidiana en el Oriente y Suroriente de Honduras (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A la luz de los nuevos datos sobre el uso y distribución de fuentes de obsidiana en el territorio hondureño, particularmente la evidencia relacionada con la explotación de la cantera de Güinope, en el departamento de El Paraíso en la región oriental del país. Se analiza y expone un debate sobre el abordaje de los estudios líticos en...
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Social Interaction and Exchange Networks in Eastern Honduras: Late Classic-Early Postclassic Period (AD 600-1000) (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramics have been the most reliable indicator of social interactions in eastern Honduras. However, these material indicators have also been described sometimes as being rather homogeneous throughout the region. On the other hand, some scholars point out intraregional variations regarding eastern Honduran ceramic assemblages and what...
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Transition and Resilience: Commoner Occupation in the Rio Amarillo East Pocket of the Copan Valley during the Postclassic Period (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent and ongoing research at residential groups at the sites of Río Amarillo and Quebrada Piedras Negras is providing a better understanding of the lives of commoners and of the population dynamics during the latter part of the Late Classic through the Postclassic Period. These sites share the second-widest pocket of the Copan River...