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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- Documents (9)
- Burt Lime Production in the Eastern Puuc Region (2024)
- Constructing Perspectives for the Application of Wood Charcoal Analysis in Kiuic, Yucatán, Mexico (2024)
- Green Acres: The Valle de Yaxhom and Puuc Prehistory (2024)
- Investigating Middle Preclassic Domestic Occupations of the Puuc Region, Yucatán, Mexico (2024)
- Location, Location, Location: An Economic and Social Approach to Stone Houses in the Ancient Puuc District of Bolonchen, Yucatán, Mexico (2024)
- Re-dissecting an Old Friend: Looking Back at the Evidence of Kiuic’s First Court (2024)
- Structuring Liminality: Terminal Classic C-shaped Structures in the Puuc Region (2024)
- Upstairs, Downstairs: Excavations of a Throne Room and Kitchen in the Kuche Palace, Kiuic, Yucatán (2024)
- Vessels and Bones: Ritual Offerings from the Grupo Kuche Palace Throne Room (2024)