With Turkeys on Spears and Maize on Arrows: Defining and Defending the Province of Chetumal

Author(s): Debra Walker; Maxine Oland

Year: 2015

Summary

Chetumal Bay had political and economic importance for local Maya populations for more than 2000 years. When the Spaniards entered the region in the 16th century, they settled near its political capital and attempted to incorporate it into a larger colonial world system, only to be met with wide-scale resistance. This paper examines the shifting dynamics of the Chetumal Bay territory, from the Preclassic through Postclassic-Colonial Periods, with perspectives drawn from Cerros and Progresso Lagoon. We consider how territorial structures were reworked throughout the history of the region, and the ways in which this history helped to shape Colonial Period interactions.

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With Turkeys on Spears and Maize on Arrows: Defining and Defending the Province of Chetumal. Maxine Oland, Debra Walker. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395257)

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica

Spatial Coverage

min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;