Examining Production in Maya Households: A Case from the Settlement Zone of Dos Hombres

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Economic integration of households outside of site cores has often been under theorized in Maya scholarship. In this paper I explore the evidence of craft production and spatial relationships in several of these residential groups as well as the implications for connections with social, political, and economic institutions. These groups make decisions about crafting activities and respond to risks and stressors both environmental and political. The residential groups explored in this study are located in northwestern Belize on the outskirts of the site of Dos Hombres and were engaged in a number of different activities including food production and crafting. By exploring the material culture produced by household activities, we can gain an improved understanding of the various strategies that individual households employed for economic, social and political purposes. By gaining a more comprehensive understanding of intra-community strategies of households, we can begin to shed light on inter-community dynamics and the larger economic network.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36721.0