Society in Flux: Migration and Kinship during Sociopolitical Change in the Southern Lowlands

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Making and Breaking Boundaries in the Maya Lowlands: Alliance and Conflict across the Guatemala–Belize Border" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the midst of conflict and change people are instigators, bystanders, or unwilling victims of larger sociopolitical machinations. Those living in the Southern Lowlands in the prehistoric and historic periods were familiar with the results of fluctuations in the social structure brought about by the Maya elite or outside Colonial powers. This paper will examine the effects of conflict, co-existence, and shifting affiliations from a bioarchaeological perspective at the Belize-Peten border among the Classic period Maya and during the historic period at a Spanish mission. Situated within cultural context, bioarchaeological data will highlight the impact of sociopolitical change on the lives and bodies of those interred in this region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Making and Breaking Boundaries in the Maya Lowlands: Alliance and Conflict across the Guatemala–Belize Border

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Abstract Id(s): 25598