Commoner Agency, Hinterland Complexity, and Evidence for a Late Classic Commoner Marketplace in the Rio Bravo Basin, Northwestern Belize
Author(s): Stanley Walling; Christine Taylor; Shawna Veach
Year: 2024
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.
This paper considers preliminary evidence for a Late Classic period marketplace at the site of Chawak But’o’ob, Belize. Group E, one of the largest settlement groups at this eighth-century agrarian site, is characterized by a well-bounded, spacious plaza that is larger and otherwise unlike any other public space at the site. This and other evidence for a marketplace will be discussed in the context of commoner complexity in the region.
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Commoner Agency, Hinterland Complexity, and Evidence for a Late Classic Commoner Marketplace in the Rio Bravo Basin, Northwestern Belize. Stanley Walling, Christine Taylor, Shawna Veach. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 497664)
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Keywords
General
Marketplace
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Maya: Classic
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Settlement patterns
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Survey
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): 39857.0