Something Different or More of the Same? Lowland Maya Polities and Regimes as Viewed from El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala
Author(s): Damien Marken; Olivia Navarro-Farr; David Freidel
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Regimes of the Ancient Maya" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Classic period (250–900 CE) politics of the Lowland Maya have been the subject of intense debate among scholars for decades. Having long ago moved beyond unsupported models of peaceful theocracies and vacant ceremonial centers, investigators nevertheless continue to wrestle with characterizing the nature of Classic political structure. This paper will reconstruct the evolving nature of the political regime(s) housed within the Maya city of El Peru-Waka’, Guatemala. Our goal is to more fully explore patterns and variability in how Maya rulers and their elite allies exercised political power in the context of a continuously shifting geopolitical environment through the synthesis of over 20 years of archaeological settlement studies, monumental and mortuary analyses, and epigraphic research.
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Something Different or More of the Same? Lowland Maya Polities and Regimes as Viewed from El Perú-Waka’, Guatemala. Damien Marken, Olivia Navarro-Farr, David Freidel. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 473502)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Maya lowlands
Spatial Coverage
min long: -94.197; min lat: 16.004 ; max long: -86.682; max lat: 21.984 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 35889.0