Tracking Luxury Craft Production across Mayapán's Physical and Social Landscapes
Author(s): Timothy Hare; Marilyn Masson
Year: 2015
Summary
Considering luxury production activities in Mayapán's urban landscape reveals new data regarding a complex and diverse economic system. We explore the evidence for luxury production activities at households attached to elite palaces at this Postclassic Maya capital city. Surplus crafting at Mayapán varied according to scale, intensity, and the value of surplus items. Crafting of valuables such as effigy censers, figurines, copper objects, and stucco sculptures, was more closely supervised (or performed by) elites compared to the majority of the city’s workshop goods that were independently produced and circulated freely via marketplace exchange.
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Tracking Luxury Craft Production across Mayapán's Physical and Social Landscapes. Timothy Hare, Marilyn Masson. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395709)
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Keywords
General
Craft Production
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luxury goods
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Maya
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Spatial Coverage
min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;