“…They instead responded creatively to the evolving challenges before them, taking action to support their families and communities, thereby demonstrating “survivance,” or “repudiation of dominance,” as defined by Gerald Vizenor (1998, 15; see also Acebo and Martinez, 2018; Atalay, 2006). Evidence for survivance from initial research at Tahcabo includes the early‐colonial hunting and mobility mentioned above (and seen also at the outskirts of the nearby site of Ek’ Balam; Hanson, 2008, 1324–29), and late‐colonial community‐wide food‐sharing activities and strategies for economic diversification that included care for plants and animals, craft activities such as embroidery, and wage labor (Dedrick, 2019). Scholars working elsewhere have demonstrated that residents of rural Yucatán experimented with and adopted introduced plants, animals, and technologies (such as water‐drawing features and production facilities) in heterogeneous ways based on social standing and other factors as they pursued resilient livelihood strategies (Alexander and Hernández Álvarez, 2018; Alexander and Williams, 2019; deFrance and Hanson, 2008; Hanson, 2008; Hoil Gutiérrez, 2010; Millet Cámara, Ojeda Mas, and Suárez Aguilar, 1993).…”