New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2
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 "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Bajo el Laberinto region of the Maya lowlands was an important locus of cultural development, continuities, and transformations for over two millennia. Beginning around the time of the earliest sedentary communities and extending through to the Postclassic period, the Maya of this region established and developed communities along the margins of bajos (karst seasonal wetlands), transforming and managing complex and diverse landscapes to meet the demands of urban populations. During the Preclassic (900 BCE–200 CE), autonomous cities such as Yaxnohcah and Calakmul flourished in this sociospatial landscape. However, by 450 CE, Calakmul emerged as the center of a network of economically integrated urban settlements, ultimately becoming one of the largest cities in Mesoamerica and the most politically significant and influential Maya city from 650 to 850 CE. Interdisciplinary investigations in this region have generated robust data relevant to understanding the distribution of settlement, land use and water management strategies, and livelihood practices. More recently, new avenues of research have focused on continuities and disruptions in urban landscapes and social, political, and economic dynamics. This two-part symposium explores these themes, with contributors presenting findings and interpretations from new, ongoing, and recently completed work in the Bajo el Laberinto region.
Other Keywords
Maya: Classic •
Architecture •
Remote Sensing/Geophysics •
Maya: Preclassic •
Urbanism •
Landscape Archaeology •
Cultural Transmission •
Ceramic Analysis •
Materiality •
space analysis
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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Beyond the Kaanul: Setting Some Questions and Initial Thoughts on the Urban Layouts of Calakmul and Its Region (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ancient city of Calakmul was the locus of important human developments throughout a period of no less than fifteen centuries, during which various social groups, ruling houses and urban palimpsests followed one another, and sometimes coexisted, until its definitive abandonment. Nowadays, lidar...
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Classic Period Integration at Yaxnohcah: A “Bottom-Up” Perspective from Ximbal Che (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigations at the Ximbal Che group at Yaxnohcah have documented intriguing new data with implications for understanding sociopolitical and economic integration in the Bajo el Laberinto region. These data include diverse cultural assemblages that show radical changes to the built...
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Continuities and Transformations: A Sociopolitical History of the Central E-Group of Yaxnohcah, Campeche, Mexico (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations at the ancient Maya site of Yaxnohcah, located in the Bajo el Laberinto region of the Maya lowlands, have demonstrated that the construction, maintenance, and elaboration of its central E-Group-style plaza-pyramid complex was integral to the multimillennial...
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Employment and Applications of Airborne and Handheld Lidar Scanning at Calakmul (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Calakmul has a long history of archaeological research and documentation, from the initial sketches and hand-drawn plans to those created using precise topographical instruments, to the recording of the different architectural spaces. Nowadays, the use of innovative...
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Pottery Traditions and Cultural Resilience: The Evidence from Yaxnohcah (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A decade of research at Yaxnohcah informs our current understanding the Central Karstic Uplands and lays the groundwork for continuing research in the greater Bajo el Laberinto region. This paper summarizes the sometimes surprising results of ceramic analysis at the site, while acknowledging the...
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The Río Bec Tradition in the Bajo el Laberinto Region: Preliminary Results (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located on the border between the central and northern lowlands, the Río Bec region developed a singular architecture and iconography from the sixth century. In the eighth century, the Central Lowlands underwent major sociopolitical transformations, such as the gradual fall of the Kaan dynasty and...
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Settlement Patterns and Chronology in Calakmul and Its Surroundings (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Calakmul is the largest site on the northern edge of the Bajo el Laberinto and has been investigated intensively since the 1980s. Previous research has produced valuable data regarding the general urban extent and the Late Preclassic monumental architecture surrounding the main plaza, as well as...
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Sustainable Urbanism in the Maya Lowlands: 13 Years of Research in the Bajo el Laberinto Region, Southern Campeche (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2011, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has been investigating the development of dense urbanism along the southern edge of the Bajo el Laberinto. Anchored by Yaxnohcah in the east and Pared de los Reyes in the west, the area was settled at ca. 900 BCE and occupied until ca. 1500 CE,...