The Artifacts of Tikal—Ornamental and Ceremonial Artifacts and Unworked Material Tikal, Report 27A

Summary

TR27A reports upon goods used as markers of social status and goods used in ritual. It describes the splendid ornaments and insignia of jade, shell, pearls, and inscribed bone shown in representations on monuments and pottery vessels and recovered from the burials of Tikal's elites. Each artifact is described in the text, tabulated, and richly illustrated with drawings and photographs. An accompanying CD-ROM includes updated databases for all recovered objects, enabling the reader to discover detailed relationships between artifact, date, and context. It also includes William R. Coe's drafts of reconstructions of destroyed offerings and typologies for ceremonial lithics and shell "Charlie Chaplin" figurines.

Hattula Moholy-Nagy is a Research Associate of the Penn Museum. William R. Coe was director of the Penn Museum's Tikal Project and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Artifacts of Tikal—Ornamental and Ceremonial Artifacts and Unworked Material Tikal, Report 27A. ( tDAR id: 376586) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8HT2QQC

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Keywords

Culture
Maya

Material
Ceramic • Ground Stone • Shell

Site Name
Tikal

Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Settlements • Tomb • Town / City

Investigation Types
Collections Research

General
Ritual • Social Status

Geographic Keywords
Guatemala

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -2000 to 900

Spatial Coverage

min long: -89.779; min lat: 17.05 ; max long: -89.375; max lat: 17.385 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): University of Pennsylvania Press Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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Documents

  1. Appendix 1 (2008)
  2. APPENDIX 10: Reconstruction of Tikal Caches Excavated Prior to 1956 (2008)
  3. APPENDIX 11: Typology and Description of Flint and Obsidian Eccentrics and Incised Obsidians (2008)
  4. APPENDIX 12: Typology and Description of Shell Charlie Chaplin Figurines (2008)
  5. Appendix 14 (2008)
  6. Appendix 2 (2008)
  7. Appendix 6 (2008)
  8. Appendix 7 (2008)
  9. APPENDIX 8: Illustrations of artifacts from special deposits published in TR. 27, Parts A and B, and other Tikal Reports (2008)
  10. APPENDIX 9: Miscellaneous Texts Illustrated in TR. 27, Parts A and B. (2008)
  11. The Artifacts of Tikal—Ornamental and Ceremonial Artifacts and Unworked Material Tikal Report 27A (2008)