Demographic Scale of an Early Classic Maya Regional Conflict
Author(s): David Webster
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Decipherment, Digs, and Discourse: Honoring Stephen Houston's Contributions to Maya Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Recent projects in the Buenavista region, some 25 km to the east at Tikal, reveal a landscape of probable Early Classic conflict. What seem to be large defensive features are positioned on a frontier between El Zotz and the Tikal polity. Despite the impressive size of these features, which are still poorly dated, the contending populations of the two regions were probably very small. If so, they provide insights into the conduct, organization, and leadership of Maya war.
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Demographic Scale of an Early Classic Maya Regional Conflict. David Webster. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 451717)
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Keywords
General
demography
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Maya: Classic
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Warfare
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): 23121