Recent Investigations in Maya Archaeology, Epigraphy, Bioarchaeology, and Zooarchaeology by the Holmul Archaeological Project in Northeastern Peten, Guatemala

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Recent Investigations in Maya Archaeology, Epigraphy, Bioarchaeology, and Zooarchaeology by the Holmul Archaeological Project in Northeastern Peten, Guatemala" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over the last 24 years, the Holmul Archaeological Project has contributed to our understanding of the Preclassic and Classic period Maya sites of Cival, Holmul, and La Sufricaya. These sites lie in the Holmul region, located in northeastern Petén, Guatemala, and were occupied between 1000 BC and AD 1040. Throughout the region’s occupation the center of power shifted between these three sites, demonstrating how political regimes changed locally in response to major political changes in the Maya Lowlands. While major centers like Tikal often garner the most attention, the centers of the Holmul region played an integral part in several major conjunctures in the long-term history of the Maya Lowlands, including the Teotihuacan Entrada of 378 CE and the rise of the Kaanu’l hegemony, around 520 CE.

This symposium will present recent and ongoing work in the Holmul region of Guatemala. Topics will include architectural and political history, epigraphy, ceramics and lithics studies, bioarchaeology, and zooarchaeology.