Dating Izapa Monuments: Comments on Rosenswig

Inomata, Takeshi; Henderson, Lucia

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“…Now, archaeological evidence and refined radiocarbon chronology points to a date of ~100 BCE for those monuments bearing hieroglyphic writing, including 260-day calendar signs, such as Izapa Monument 40, Kaminaljuyu Monument 10, and Takalik Abaj Stela 12 ( 27 – 29 ). The monuments from the Esperanza phase, including Kaminaljuyu’s Monument 10, probably date many centuries later than once thought and are now most accurately placed at about ~100 BCE ( 27 , 28 ). The dates for Izapa’s relief sculpture have been a point of recent debate.…”

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“…Only one stone, Monument 40, bears a date glyph, 7 Cimi, that is clearly in the same tradition as those already discussed. Whereas Rosenswig ( 30 ) places many Izapa sculptures in the Guillén phase (300 to 100 BCE), Inomata and Henderson ( 28 , 29 ) make a good case for them being somewhat later. Monument 40 itself is difficult to assign any specific date.…”

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An early Maya calendar record from San Bartolo, Guatemala

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Here, we present evidence for the earliest known calendar notation from the Maya region, found among fragments of painted murals excavated at San Bartolo, Guatemala. On the basis of their sealed contexts in an early architectural phase of the “Las Pinturas” pyramid, we assign these fragments to between 300 and 200 BCE, preceding the other well-known mural chamber of San Bartolo by approximately 150 years. The date record “7 Deer” represents a day in the 260-day divinatory calendar used throughout Mesoamerica and among indigenous Maya communities today. It is presented along with 10 other text fragments that reveal an established writing tradition, multiple scribal hands, and murals combining texts with images from an early ritual complex. The 7 Deer day record represents the earliest securely dated example of the Maya calendar and is important to understanding the development of the 260-day count and associated aspects of Mesoamerican religion and cosmological science.

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“…John Clark and Ajax Moreno (2018) and Rosenswig (2019) recently defended the traditional placement of these sculptures between 300 and 100 BC. Inomata and Henderson (2016, 2019) suggest instead that many of the Izapa monuments may have been carved between 300 and 100 BC, but that some may date to around 100 BC or later. The dates of Izapa monuments need to be further evaluated with more data.…”

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“…First, the SP chronology implies that Maya-style carving appeared first in the Southern Maya Region, nearly three centuries before securely dated counterparts in the lowlands. Following Lucia Henderson (Inomata and Henderson 2016, 2019), we use the term “Maya style” to refer to a subset of bas relief carvings from the Southern Region that are characterized by stylistic and iconographic elements found in Maya lowland art. The revised chronology places those sculptures in the south and the lowlands nearly in the same period.…”

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Refining Kaminaljuyu Chronology: New Radiocarbon Dates, Bayesian Analysis, and Ceramics Studies

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Since Kaminaljuyu was first systematically excavated in the 1930s, the chronology of the site has been fraught with confusion and scholarly disagreement. In recent years, scholars generally adopted the chronology presented by Shook and Popenoe de Hatch (1999) as the most authoritative account. In 2014, however, Inomata and colleagues proposed a revision of this chronology by shifting its Preclassic portion (including the Las Charcas and Providencia phases) roughly 300 years later in time. In this article, we analyze a total of 108 radiocarbon dates with Bayesian statistics, tying them to detailed ceramic analysis. These dates include previously reported dates, measured after the year 2000, as well as 68 new radiocarbon dates obtained from Kaminaljuyu and nearby sites. The results largely support Inomata and coauthors’ (2014) revised Preclassic chronology, placing the Las Charcas–Providencia transition around 350 BC and the Providencia–Verbena transition around 75 BC. In addition, we present new dates on the Early Classic period, although some ambiguity remains for the Esperanza phase, when Teotihuacan-related elements were introduced to Kaminaljuyu. The revised chronology, combined with environmental data, suggests an explosive increase in population and construction activity during the Verbena and Arenal phases.

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Dating Izapa Monuments: Comments on Rosenswig

Abstract: Rosenswig's discussion of the sculptural chronology of Izapa contains some inaccuracies that require correction. The dates of the monuments at Izapa also require further evaluation.

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An early Maya calendar record from San Bartolo, Guatemala

An early Maya calendar record from San Bartolo, Guatemala

Refining Kaminaljuyu Chronology: New Radiocarbon Dates, Bayesian Analysis, and Ceramics Studies

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