Archaeological Investigations in the El Paraíso Valley: The Role of Secondary Centers in the Multiethnic Landscape of Classic Period Copan

Canuto, Marcello A.; Bell, Ellen

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“…Royal dynasties would expand and extend their influence over several other polities, subordinating them through a diverse set of strategies including marriage alliance, trade, and conquest (Canuto & Barrientos 2011, Canuto & Bell 2013. However, rivalry among members of these extended dynastic families resulted in competition in the form of rituals, architecture, and monuments that often led to the dissolution of larger regional systems and fomented warfare (Demarest 2006, Sharer & Traxler 2006, Martin & Grube 2008, Canuto & Barrientos 2011.…”

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Impacts of Climate Change on the Collapse of Lowland Maya Civilization

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Brenner

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Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci.

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Paleoclimatologists have discovered abundant evidence that droughts coincided with collapse of the Lowland Classic Maya civilization, and some argue that climate change contributed to societal disintegration. Many archaeologists, however, maintain that drought cannot explain the timing or complex nature of societal changes at the end of the Classic Period, between the eighth and eleventh centuries CE. This review presents a compilation of climate proxy data indicating that droughts in the ninth to eleventh century were the most severe and frequent in Maya prehistory. Comparison with recent archaeological evidence, however, indicates an earlier beginning for complex economic and political processes that led to the disintegration of states in the southern region of the Maya lowlands that precedes major droughts. Nonetheless, drought clearly contributed to the unusual severity of the Classic Maya collapse, and helped to inhibit the type of recovery seen in earlier periods of Maya prehistory. In the drier northern Maya Lowlands, a later political collapse at ca. 1000 CE appears to be related to ongoing extreme drought. Future interdisciplinary research should use more refined climatological and archaeological data to examine the relationship between climate and social processes throughout the entirety of Maya prehistory. 613

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Impacts of Climate Change on the Collapse of Lowland Maya Civilization

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Brenner

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“…Desde la década de 1980 se ha postulado la presencia de grupos "mayas" y "lencas" en el área central de Copán (Gerstle 1988). En investigaciones subsecuentes esta dicotomía cultural fue desarrollada en cuestiones de "influencias", tanto en el núcleo urbano (Fash W. 2005, p. 91-93;Maca 2015, p. 184-186) como en el área rural del valle del río Copán y en los valles cercanos (Canuto 2002(Canuto , 2004Canuto y Bell 2013). Las diferentes prácticas culturales que pudieron haber servido de marcadores étnicos abarcan la producción cerámica (Viel 1999), la arquitectura (Sharer y Traxler 2006) y la deformación craneal (Suzuki 2015, p. 251-263).…”

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Los mayas y los otros: integración y distinción cultural en el paisaje urbano y rural de Copán

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“…This event exposed the complex, multiphase construction history of the acropolis but destroyed significant structures, including a possible tower, that was reported by the first visitors to Copan. Similar forces have also destroyed portions of structure 5 and structures in plazas, A, E, and F of the site cores of Rio Amarillo (Saturno, , p. 94) and portions of patio 3 at the site of El Paraiso (Canuto & Bell, , p. 6) in western Honduras.…”

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Effects of hurricanes, mudslides, flooding, and riverine erosion on the erasure of archaeological sites in tropical, highland Honduras

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Site destruction and obfuscation are significant processes that hinder archaeological interpretations. This article focuses on a few natural taphonomic agencies impinging on archaeological site preservation in highland Central American settings. Precipitation and drainage are especially crucial in these riverine environments. Access to water for consumption and agriculture were vital factors in the determination of settlement patterns. Over time, a mixture of both gradual and catastrophic processes ranging from moderate rainstorms to hurricanes are known to trigger flooding, riverine erosion, and landslides with the potential to destroy or obscure vulnerable valley sites. Examples are given of Classic Period (A.D. 200–900) archaeological sites from the Cucuyagua and Sensenti valleys in western Honduras affected by catastrophic weather events during occupation and after site abandonment. Mudslides and landslides, in particular, are highlighted as significant destructive processes that remain under‐discussed in regional literature. Furthermore, we highlight the possible causal role of hurricanes in provoking both landslides and flooding. Finally, we consider the impact of these events in our particular study area.

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Archaeological Investigations in the El Paraíso Valley: The Role of Secondary Centers in the Multiethnic Landscape of Classic Period Copan

Cited by 19 publications

References 55 publications

Impacts of Climate Change on the Collapse of Lowland Maya Civilization

Impacts of Climate Change on the Collapse of Lowland Maya Civilization

Los mayas y los otros: integración y distinción cultural en el paisaje urbano y rural de Copán

Effects of hurricanes, mudslides, flooding, and riverine erosion on the erasure of archaeological sites in tropical, highland Honduras

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