New Investigations at Holtun: A Preclassic Maya Ritual Center
Author(s): Brigitte Kovacevich; Michael Callaghan; Karla Cardona; Whitney Goodwin; Katelyn Bishop
Year: 2016
Summary
The site of Holtun is located in the department of the Peten at about 12 km south of the site of Yaxha and 35 km from Tikal. Holtun is considered a civic-ceremonial center and is part of a Group of Preclassic epicenters located south of Yaxha Lake. This paper will summarize the results of the field and lab seasons from 2012-2015. We will also discuss the preliminary results of the analysis of radiocarbon, fauna, lithics, ceramics, and soils. The analyses suggest that Holtun was a Preclassic ceremonial center in this region and has early evidence of social inequality, monumental architecture, and public ritual.
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New Investigations at Holtun: A Preclassic Maya Ritual Center. Brigitte Kovacevich, Michael Callaghan, Karla Cardona, Whitney Goodwin, Katelyn Bishop. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404988)
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Keywords
General
Maya
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public ritual
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social inequality
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Spatial Coverage
min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;