Examining Flaked Stone from Caracol, Belize, at the Urban Scale

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.

Household and city scales are typical units of archaeological analysis at Maya sites. More recent models of urban space include intermediate scales referred to as “neighborhoods” that encompass clusters of households and “districts” that effectively integrate neighborhoods. Using flaked stone data from Caracol, Belize, both craft producers and consumers within these scales are examined to evaluate household activities relative to how cities operate to provision themselves with necessary daily resources. Topics such as market and nonmarket economies are addressed as well as the depositional patterns of secondary refuse disposal and intentional ritual offerings.

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): 32337