The Intersection of Late Classic Figurines at a Crossroads of the Maya World

Author(s): Erin Sears

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Mesoamerican Figurines in Context. New Insights on Tridimensional Representations from Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation explores how miniature ceramic figurines were incorporated into the daily lives, rituals and intentions of the Late Classic period Maya of the Alta Verapaz region. Ceramic figurines are also the remnants of Maya musical instrumentation and have been recovered from settings of ancient ritual expression and production. When comparing museum figurine specimens with those recovered through current fieldwork, the diversity of imagery expressed within the corpus of ceramic figurines from this region creates a larger understanding of Maya human presentation, the natural world, as well as ancient ideas of what constitutes supernatural veneration.

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The Intersection of Late Classic Figurines at a Crossroads of the Maya World. Erin Sears. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 452157)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -94.197; min lat: 14.009 ; max long: -87.737; max lat: 18.021 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 23987