Transition and Resilience: Commoner Occupation in the Rio Amarillo East Pocket of the Copan Valley during the Postclassic Period

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent and ongoing research at residential groups at the sites of Río Amarillo and Quebrada Piedras Negras is providing a better understanding of the lives of commoners and of the population dynamics during the latter part of the Late Classic through the Postclassic Period. These sites share the second-widest pocket of the Copan River Valley, and lie in the middle of one of the main trade routes between Copan and Quirigua. The excavations and mapping of the households groups distributed in this landscape provide an increased understanding of the people who inhabited this area close to the Copan metropolis during a time of complicated political, economic, and environmental change. Of particular interest are some of the differences found in the material culture of sites that all lie within the visual limit of each other. This paper will discuss both results from specific households and those of a larger mapping program.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Pre-Columbian Cultures of Honduras after AD 900   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25836