Interaction and Exchange at Kaminaljuyu: Trade and Ritual

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Art, Archaeology, and Science: Investigations in the Guatemala Highlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, had a strategic location along important trade routes. Because of this, the site had the

opportunity to access important goods such as obsidian, jade, cacao, salt, and other important goods.

Some of the exchange might have involved the ball game. Recent findings from excavations near Ball Court B

at Kaminaljuyu suggests the presence of non-local individuals that might have been involved in a ball game

encounter at the site. The discovery of Pacific Coast pottery, candeleros, slate, jade, and other foreign goods,

suggest that economic activities of long distance exchange of exotic products might have taken place connected

to the ball game. This paper will present data on recent discoveries that suggest an extensive interaction network

at the site during the Classic period. We hope to present data on Francisco Estrada-Belli´s analysis of least cost

routes connected to this network.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Art, Archaeology, and Science: Investigations in the Guatemala Highlands

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Abstract Id(s): 24539