Framing Intent, Power, and Agency in Eastern Honduras

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Advances and New Perspectives in the Isthmo-Colombian Area" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Throughout their history, the polities in eastern Honduras existed along a frontier, interacting with larger, powerful groups from a different cultural tradition to the west and with more closely related people to the south. During the period between 500 and 1200 CE, eastern Honduran groups adopted several significant elements of material culture typical of Mesoamerica, including ball courts, certain types of monumental construction, and orthogonal site plans. Other elements, including lapidary and ceramic traditions, reveal continued interactions with groups to the south. I explore this interaction to understand the intent, power, and agency manifested in the decisions to adopt foreign elements of material culture in some contexts and not others.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Advances and New Perspectives in the Isthmo-Colombian Area

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Abstract Id(s): 33027