Preliminary Results from La Luna: A Late Classic Residential Group at El Zotz

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper will discuss the preliminary results of excavations at La Luna, a residential group outside of the El Zotz core. Initial investigations from this Late Classic complex yielded a large volume of high-quality polychrome sherds and prestige items that are inconsistent with the simple architecture of the group. The source of these materials and the processes involved in their deposition are considered here through the analysis of ceramics from both a midden and architectural fill. Stylistic, glyphic, and modal attributes are combined with observations about sherd preservation to shed light on how the population at La Luna used these materials, and how the prestige items affected the social status of this community.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23887