The chemical residue analysis is a powerful method to identify specific activities took place on the plaster floor of a building which was gradually abandoned without leaving artifacts. We analyzed four structures of the Guzmán Group, a plazuela group of the El Palmar archaeological site, which was a residential compound of non-royal elites who held the title of lakam. The results together with other material evidence suggest that lakamob were engaged in a wide variety of activities that include food storage, consumption and serving, as well as feasting, meeting, and ritual.
En épocas recientes, la región del sur de Quintana Roo ha cobrado relevancia dentro de los estudios arqueológicos y epigráficos del área maya debido, en gran medida, a la presencia de la dinastía Kaanu’l en distintos sitios de la región, principalmente en Dzibanché, que fungió como capital de la entidad política de la Cabeza de Serpiente desde la segunda mitad del Clásico Temprano. De igual manera, información procedente de asentamientos como Pol Box y El Resbalón han complementado y enriquecido nuestra visión sobre la presencia de dicha dinastía y la red de contactos que construyó para extender su dominio más allá de las fronteras del señorío.
This chapter, “Noh Kah: An Archaeological Site in Extreme Southeastern Quintana Roo,” describes the newly surveyed site Noh Cah as an example of the clustered dispersed settlement pattern known from throughout southeastern Quintana Roo. These mostly Early Classic sites do not have a single monumental core as is common in Petén. Rather they have multiple monumental cores arranged in clusters across a more dispersed landscape, possibly an advantageous arrangement for large scale cacao production. They are linked by line-of-site from pyramidal summits oriented on a predominately east–west axis that does not deviate beyond the angle of the summer and winter solstices. Epigraphic evidence from several of these sites links them to Early Classic Dzibanché and the powerful Kaanal dynasty that was located there.
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