Becan Reconsidered

Author(s): David Webster

Year: 2018

Summary

BECAN RECONSIDERED -- Joe Ball’s early career centered strongly on Becan, which during the early 1970’s figured prominently in many interpretations of Classic Maya society and culture history. The initial Becan research predated our effective understanding of Maya inscriptions, the large-scale conflicts and alliances that affected the southern lowlands, and also the now-widespread data for climate change and the Classic "collapse". Because of its lack of inscriptions Becan has been unfortunately marginalized or ignored in the later literature on these topics. Reconsideration of its significance on the Maya political and agrarian landscape is long overdue.

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Becan Reconsidered. David Webster. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444548)

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Keywords

General
Maya: Classic • resilience and drought • Warfare, Violence, and Conflict

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Maya lowlands

Spatial Coverage

min long: -94.197; min lat: 16.004 ; max long: -86.682; max lat: 21.984 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 20162