The Río Bec Tradition in the Bajo el Laberinto Region: Preliminary Results

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Located on the border between the central and northern lowlands, the Río Bec region developed a singular architecture and iconography from the sixth century. In the eighth century, the Central Lowlands underwent major sociopolitical transformations, such as the gradual fall of the Kaan dynasty and the loss of Calakmul’s hegemony, resulting in increased mobility of populations and ideas. From the second half of the eighth century, some sites in the Bajo el Laberinto Region adopted architectural and iconographic features of the Río Bec tradition. Since 2020, a doctoral thesis, in correlation with the Río Bec 2 project, aims to reference and study these elements in order to contribute to a more precise definition of the Río Bec phenomenon, measure its influence in space and time and characterize its interregional relations. Bibliographical research, coupled with prospections and in situ analyses carried out during the 2022 and 2023 seasons, highlighted various themes and qualities of realization, suggesting different modes of transmission according to the sites. This presentation aims to present the preliminary results obtained at the sites of Calakmul, Olvidado, and Pared de los Reyes.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New and Emerging Perspectives on the Bajo el Laberinto Region of the Maya Lowlands, Part 2   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38389.0