Death, Remembrance, and Cultural Change at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Puerto Rico
Author(s): L. Antonio Curet
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
For a long time, the Ceremonial Center of Tibes has been considered by many of us as evidence of incipient social stratification and monopolization of power in the Caribbean. However, a long-term project at this site has failed to find clear evidence of strong social differentiation and has forced us to begin explaining either the presence of social stratification without archaeological correlates or the development of a monumental, ceremonial center without social stratification. This paper takes a closer look at the premises and evidence (or lack of evidence) recovered by the project and propose a new perspective that may explain the contradictions presented above.
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Death, Remembrance, and Cultural Change at the Ceremonial Center of Tibes, Puerto Rico. L. Antonio Curet. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467573)
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Keywords
General
Coastal and Island Archaeology
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Disasters
Geographic Keywords
Caribbean
Spatial Coverage
min long: -90.747; min lat: 3.25 ; max long: -48.999; max lat: 27.683 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 32909