Fringe Benefits?: Historical Household Investigations at Rancho Kiuic, Yucatan, Mexico

Summary

This paper presents preliminary findings from recent research at Rancho Kiuic, an 18th- 20th century landed estate in the Puuc region of Yucatán, México. Occupied by generations of Maya-speaking landowners and laborers during the Colonial and Republican eras, the Rancho represents a site type with that has seen little archaeological or ethnohistoric investigation. Drawing on household-level excavation data, oral histories among the Rancho’s descendant community, and archival research, landowner-laborer relationships among Maya-speakers will be explored. Furthermore, the Rancho’s temporal and physical position, on the cusp of historical political shifts and at the edge of centralized political authority, will be considered as it relates to the critical issues of socioeconomic status and tenancy patterns among laborers and landowners at the site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• The Bolonchén Regional Archaeological Project: Sixteen Years of Investigating Maya Society in the Eastern Puuc Region from the Preclassic through the Historical Period

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