Lowland Maya Civilization in the Eighth Century A. D.

Chase, David; Sabloff, Jeremy A.; Henderson, John S.

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“…E-Group assemblages are ceremonial complexes that spread throughout the Maya lowlands, as well as central Chiapas and some parts of the southern Gulf Coast, during the Preclassic period. Their arrangement with a western pyramid and an eastern long building may have been associated with symbolisms and rituals tied to solar movements [ 45 – 51 ]. Our work in the Ceibal region has provided significant information regarding the development of these groups, refining earlier chronologies [ 45 , 48 ] ( Fig 6 ).…”

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“…This configuration may be called the La Venta type, referring to Mounds D-1 and D-8 at this Olmec center [ 52 , 53 ]. The Late Preclassic period (350–75 BC) witnessed the development of what Arlen Chase has named the Cenote type, which is characterized by an eastern winged pyramid (the eastern platform supported a tall pyramid in the center) [ 45 , 54 ]. Single eastern winged pyramids that were not paired with a western structure, thus not forming an E Group, also emerged during this period.…”

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“…This form was then replaced by the Cenote type of E Group with an eastern winged pyramid, but the timing of their emergence varied from the late Middle Preclassic to the Terminal Preclassic. A Cenote-type E Group may have been built during the Late Preclassic period at Uaxactun, but the eastern platforms with flat summits persisted for most part of the Late Preclassic period at Tikal and Caracol [ 17 , 45 , 59 , 62 ]. A potentially earlier example of the eastern winged pyramid or the Cenote-type E Group is Group E of Xunantunich in Belize, which may date to the late Middle Preclassic or even early Middle Preclassic [ 63 ].…”

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“…In the central and eastern Maya lowlands, in contrast, a large number of E Groups were built during the Late and Terminal Preclassic periods [ 17 , 64 , 65 ], leading to the development of Uaxactun-type E Groups in the Terminal Preclassic and Early Classic periods. The E-Group assemblage of Tikal took the form of the Uaxactun type during the Terminal Preclassic Cauac phase, which we would date to 75 BC-AD 100, whereas at Uaxactun and Caracol this form developed during the Early Classic [ 17 , 45 ]. At Cahal Pech and other sites in the Belize River valley, what Awe et al call Eastern Triadic Structures (three buildings constructed in a row with or without a paring western structure) were built as early as the late Middle Preclassic period.…”

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Archaeological application of airborne LiDAR to examine social changes in the Ceibal region of the Maya lowlands

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Although the application of LiDAR has made significant contributions to archaeology, LiDAR only provides a synchronic view of the current topography. An important challenge for researchers is to extract diachronic information over typically extensive LiDAR-surveyed areas in an efficient manner. By applying an architectural chronology obtained from intensive excavations at the site center and by complementing it with surface collection and test excavations in peripheral zones, we analyze LiDAR data over an area of 470 km2 to trace social changes through time in the Ceibal region, Guatemala, of the Maya lowlands. We refine estimates of structure counts and populations by applying commission and omission error rates calculated from the results of ground-truthing. Although the results of our study need to be tested and refined with additional research in the future, they provide an initial understanding of social processes over a wide area. Ceibal appears to have served as the only ceremonial complex in the region during the transition to sedentism at the beginning of the Middle Preclassic period (c. 1000 BC). As a more sedentary way of life was accepted during the late part of the Middle Preclassic period and the initial Late Preclassic period (600–300 BC), more ceremonial assemblages were constructed outside the Ceibal center, possibly symbolizing the local groups’ claim to surrounding agricultural lands. From the middle Late Preclassic to the initial Early Classic period (300 BC-AD 300), a significant number of pyramidal complexes were probably built. Their high concentration in the Ceibal center probably reflects increasing political centralization. After a demographic decline during the rest of the Early Classic period, the population in the Ceibal region reached the highest level during the Late and Terminal Classic periods, when dynastic rule was well established (AD 600–950).

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Section: Architectural Chronologymentioning

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Section: Architectural Chronologymentioning

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Section: Architectural Chronologymentioning

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Section: Architectural Chronologymentioning

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“…Aside from Actuncan South, the most important sacred space at Actuncan is the E-Group complex situated around Plaza F (Donohue 2014; LeCount et al 2017; Simova 2018; 2019; Simova & Mixter 2016). E-groups are nearly ubiquitous within Late Preclassic centres and were critical to early community life and for establishing territorial claims (Chase & Chase 1995; Doyle 2012; Freidel et al 2017). Consistent with the typical arrangement of E-Groups, Plaza F is bounded on the east by a long linear platform and on the west by a tall radial pyramid.…”

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Community Resilience and Urban Planning during the Ninth-Century Maya Collapse: A Case Study from Actuncan, Belize

Mixter¹

2019

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To remain in place in the immediate aftermath of the ninth-century Maya collapse, Maya groups employed various resilient strategies. In the absence of divine rulers, groups needed to renegotiate their forms of political authority and to reconsider the legitimizing role of religious institutions. This kind of negotiation happened first at the local level, where individual communities developed varied political and ideological solutions. At the community of Actuncan, located in the lower Mopan River valley of Belize, reorganization took place within the remains of a monumental urban centre built 1000 years before by the site's early rulers. I report on the changing configuration and use of Actuncan's urban landscape during the process of reorganization. These modifications included the construction of a new centre for political gatherings, the dismantling of old administrative buildings constructed by holy lords and the reuse of the site's oldest ritual space. These developments split the city into distinct civic and ritual zones, paralleling the adoption of a new shared rule divorced from cosmological underpinnings. This case study provides an example of how broader societal resilience relies on adaptation at the local level.

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Dinámica Del Desarrollo Cultural Y Sociopolítico De Nakum, Guatemala Durante El Preclásico Medio

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ResumenLos resultados de investigaciones arqueológicas recientes llevadas a cabo en el sitio Nakum, ubicado en el noreste de Guatemala, indican que este centro experimentó una importante evolución cultural, sociopolítica y arquitectónica entre los horizontes pre-Mamom y Mamom (1000–300 a.C.). Las excavaciones arqueológicas permitieron documentar varios edificios y complejos fechados para este periodo, incluyendo un grupo tipo E, una cancha de juego de pelota y un baño de vapor. Asimismo, producto de las excavaciones, se obtuvo una gran colección cerámica de dicha temporalidad, la cual permite—gracias a estudios estilísticos, modales, petrográficos y fisicoquímicos—conocer con mayor detalle los cambios culturales y sociales que tuvieron lugar en el sitio durante el preclásico medio.

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Lowland Maya Civilization in the Eighth Century A. D.

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Archaeological application of airborne LiDAR to examine social changes in the Ceibal region of the Maya lowlands

Archaeological application of airborne LiDAR to examine social changes in the Ceibal region of the Maya lowlands

Community Resilience and Urban Planning during the Ninth-Century Maya Collapse: A Case Study from Actuncan, Belize

Dinámica Del Desarrollo Cultural Y Sociopolítico De Nakum, Guatemala Durante El Preclásico Medio

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