Living in the City of Naachtun (Guatemala): A Perspective from Urban Neighborhoods

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Urban Question: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeological investigations carried out since 2011 at the site of Naachtun provide series of data useful to draw with sufficient details, the historical trajectory of this Maya Classic regional capital located between Tikal and Calakmul. Starting its development with the construction of public architecture from 150 CE, the city reached its demographic peak between 700 and 850—a period for which it is possible to discern neighborhoods on the basis of morphological, spatial, and chronological analyses. The paper will focus on these urban neighborhoods, particularly on their formation and growth in space and time as well as on people relationships within these units and between them. On the household and neighborhood scales, specific datasets documenting continuity/discontinuity and activities (occupational sequences, architecture and spatial layout, material culture, land-use pattern) allow us to discuss the role of social dynamics in shaping the city and their connections with the local political leaders' strategies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Urban Question: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 33413