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

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.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Mesoamerican Figurines in Context. New Insights on Tridimensional Representations from Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 23987