“…Research at the site of Tahcabo was designed to study that process. Investigations take place in partnership with town residents through a research project called Proyecto Arqueológico Colaborativo del Oriente de Yucatán (PACOY), codirected by authors Adolfo Iván Batún Alpuche and Patricia A. McAnany (Batún Alpuche, McAnany, and Dedrick, 2017; McAnany, Batún Alpuche, and Dedrick, 2020). Located approximately 12 km southeast of Tizimín (Figure 1), Tahcabo was designated as a mission town to which religious officials forcefully gathered people, and where they worked to convert them.…”