The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project (BRAP) will complete its twenty-fifth year of research in the Puuc Region of the northern Maya lowlands in 2024. Codirected by Tomás Gallareta Negrón, William Ringle, and George J. Bey III, the BRAP has addressed a wide range of issues relating to the development and evolution of social complexity in the Puuc. Project findings have demonstrated that monumentality emerged in the region as early as 800 BC and that the Puuc experienced its own trajectory of demographic ebbs and flows up through a Terminal Classic period population boom. Extensive lidar coverage has ushered in a new phase of research, expanding the territorial and theoretical scopes of the project. Pursuing an integrative and extensive regionwide approach, the BRAP has overseen investigations at the sites of Kiuic, Xocnaceh, Yaxhom, Huntichmul, Muluchtzekel, Kom, and Paso del Macho, among others. Beyond its scholarly contributions, the BRAP has implemented a community engagement and environmental stewardship approach through its management of the Kaxil Kiuic Biocultural Reserve. In this session, BRAP-affiliated archaeologists review research milestones, present syntheses of findings from 25 years of research, and offer a vision for the next quarter-century of archaeological investigations in the Puuc region.
Other Keywords
Maya: Classic •
Architecture •
Survey •
Paleoethnobotany •
Urbanism •
Landscape Archaeology •
Ceramic Analysis •
Craft Production •
Settlement patterns •
Household Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) •
Peten (State / Territory) •
Yucatan (State / Territory) •
Belize (Country) •
Orange Walk (State / Territory) •
Cayo (State / Territory) •
Corozal (State / Territory) •
Belize (State / Territory) •
Stann Creek (State / Territory) •
Quintana Roo (State / Territory)
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Burt Lime Production in the Eastern Puuc Region (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This talk will present an overview of the Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project’s contributions to the study of Maya burnt lime production, drawing on a mix of excavation, archaeometric, and spatial data. As part of their extensive Kiuic-Labná intersect pedestrian survey, Tomás Gallareta Negrón and...
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Constructing Perspectives for the Application of Wood Charcoal Analysis in Kiuic, Yucatán, Mexico (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in the Bolonchen district have as one of their goals the understanding of the variation of the natural resource exploitation by the ancient settlers in the region. An approach that has been a relevant for reconstruction of the landscape and prehispanic forest management is...
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Green Acres: The Valle de Yaxhom and Puuc Prehistory (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has long been recognized that the two principal physiographic subdivisions of the Puuc are the wedge-shaped Valle de Sta. Elena, just south of the Puuc escarpment, and to its south, the Bolonchen Hill District. One goal of the PARB project was to explore the eastern manifestations of these two regions for...
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Investigating Middle Preclassic Domestic Occupations of the Puuc Region, Yucatán, Mexico (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research conducted by the Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project over the last several decades has firmly established the presence of Middle Preclassic occupations across the Puuc region. Survey and excavation at sites such as Xocnaceh, Yaxhom, and Kiuic have identified and confirmed the antiquity of a...
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Location, Location, Location: An Economic and Social Approach to Stone Houses in the Ancient Puuc District of Bolonchen, Yucatán, Mexico (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Domestic architecture in the Puuc Hills shows an unusually high incidence of vaulted buildings, often considered to be the residences of higher status community members. The factors guiding their placement within communities are understudied, however. This is unfortunate since the siting of such expensive...
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Re-dissecting an Old Friend: Looking Back at the Evidence of Kiuic’s First Court (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 2007 to 2016, a team of archaeologists under the direction of George J. Bey III excavated Structure N1065E1025, a pyramid temple dated to the Terminal Classic period and located at the Yaxché group in the heart of the archaeological site of Kiuic, Yucatán. The structure had a complex construction...
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Structuring Liminality: Terminal Classic C-shaped Structures in the Puuc Region (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses excavations between 2006 and 2008 in the Grupo Chanchich at Huntichmul, Yucatán. Huntichmul is one of the larger sites in the eastern Puuc, with a strong Terminal Classic apogee. The Grupo Chanchich is of interest because it is a formal arrangement of C-shaped structures nestled in the...
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Upstairs, Downstairs: Excavations of a Throne Room and Kitchen in the Kuche Palace, Kiuic, Yucatán (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning around AD 800 the Puuc region experienced a major construction boom of monumental architecture, including large palace complexes. At Kiuic, in the Bolonchen region of the Puuc, the early Yaxché Palace (AD 550–800) was replaced by a much larger complex of structures, still under construction at the...
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Vessels and Bones: Ritual Offerings from the Grupo Kuche Palace Throne Room (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "The Bolonchen Regional Archaeological Project: 25 Years of Research in the Puuc" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the PARB project’s 2023 excavations of the Terminal Classic (AD 800–1000) Grupo Kuche palace throne room (N1050E0815) at Kiuic, we unearthed two major and distinct ritual offerings. The first was thought to be a lip-to-lip cache located on the northwest corner near the top of the structure beneath a...