An Exchange of Ideas: Recent Research on Maya Commodities
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "An Exchange of Ideas: Recent Research on Maya Commodities" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This symposium explores recent anthropological research concerning commodities among Maya peoples from Formative times to the historic period, whose production was imposed by colonial powers. We think of commodities in a very general sense: any material item that is intended for exchange. Commodities can range from necessities that everyone needed to luxuries that were only obtained by kings and queens. Commodities can be examined in a number of different ways including their function, raw material source, or labor value. The symposium features a varied set of presenters to examine a wide variety of different commodities and various approaches to their analysis and interpretation. We hope the session appeals to attendees interested in the Maya and also those whose thematic focus deals with ancient commodities.
Other Keywords
Maya: Classic •
Trade and exchange •
Lithic Analysis •
Political economy •
Craft Production •
Underwater Archaeology •
Zooarchaeology •
Marine Shell •
Salt •
Colonialism
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Peten (State / Territory) •
Yucatan (State / Territory) •
Orange Walk (State / Territory) •
Cayo (State / Territory) •
Corozal (State / Territory) •
Belize (State / Territory) •
Stann Creek (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-9 of 9)
- Documents (9)
- Chicle and the San Pedro Maya of British Honduras (2023)
- Crafting Chert Commodities at Santa Cruz, Yucatan, Mexico (2023)
- Documenting Domestic Economies in the Eastern Maya Lowlands through Obsidian Exchange (2023)
- Gift of the Gods: A Mashup of the History of Mesoamerican Avocados (2023)
- Identifying Salt Cakes as Commodities in the Classic Maya Marketplace Economy (2023)
- Middle Preclassic Marine Shell Production and Ritual Deposition at the Sites of Blackman Eddy and Las Ruinas de Arenal, Belize (2023)
- A Reexamination of the Distribution of Jade Artifacts at the Maya Site of Blue Creek in Northwestern Belize (2023)
- Utilitarian Lithics as Commodities: Comparing Classic Period Specialized and Multi-craft Producers in the Maya Lowlands (2023)
- Whose Lime Is It Anyway? Burnt Lime as Commodity in the Classic Period Northern Lowlands (2023)