Leveraging Power: Stonecarvers and Architectural Sculpture Production in the Copan Region

Summary

The abundance and diversity of monumental art, architecture and hieroglyphic texts at sites outside the Principal Group in the Copan Valley, and into the hinterlands, illuminate the timing and intent of regal investiture of authority in elites considered important to the stability of the kingdom. The consistent use of two imagery programs in architecture, and the linking of one of those programs with textual confirmation of membership in the royal court, reveal two strategies for leveraging the production and distribution of political power and its display. Recent research highlights the emphasis on foreign inspirations of ideology at the valley site of Group 6N-1, Rastrojon, Copan.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Copan I: The Late Classic Period

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Abstract Id(s): 14547