The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900

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.