Searching for Marketplaces at Blue Creek and Xnoha

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Prehispanic Maya Marketplace Investigations in the Three Rivers Region of Belize: First Results" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Marketplaces are a vital component for the economic interdependence of ancient Maya kingdoms. In our view, marketplaces were also definitional components of Maya central places of power as much as the presence of ostentatious presentations of architecture were. The Blue Creek Archaeological Project has been investigating multiple aspects of ancient northwest Belize for three decades. In this presentation, we will discuss the five central places of power we have identified and focus on the sites of Xnoha and Blue Creek, where we are participating in the marketplace project by testing soils and other variables to identify these features.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Prehispanic Maya Marketplace Investigations in the Three Rivers Region of Belize: First Results   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38652.0