Looking at the Blind Spot of the Maya Collapse: Highlands Occupation during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Various studies have suggested that, as a consequence of the radical crises that the Maya cities underwent at the end of the Classic period, a portion of Central Lowlands population could have migrated towards the Yucatán peninsula. However, very few works have dealt with the Highlands, despite it having been one of the most densely populated regions when the Spanish arrived. This presentation proposes a synthesis of the available data for the ninth and tenth centuries in that still insufficiently studied part of the Mayan area. It focuses on the indices of Lowlands influence and presents the most recent excavation data from Alta Verapaz.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Movement of People and Ideas in Eastern Mesoamerica during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries CE: A Multidisciplinary Approach Part II   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36193.0