The Lacandon Rain Forest

Cook, S. A.

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“…A settlement unit must meet at least one of three criteria to be classified as a PRU: (1) consist of more than one structure with a combined labor investment greater than 500 person-days; (2) comprise a single structure built atop a plazuela ; or (3) in the case of solitary mounds with no associated features, have a diagonal measurement less than or equal to 8 m, and a height of 1 m or more (Figure 4). Our criteria derive from the straightforward proposition that, based on ethnographic observations, traditional lowland Maya houses consist of at least two structures: one for general domestic functions, and one for cooking (e.g., Cook 2016; Redfield and Villa Rojas 1962; Zetina Gutiérrez and Faust 2011). In other words, archaeologists should look for both domicile and kitchen, at a minimum, when defining the built environs of a household.…”

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Quantitative analyses of wealth inequality at Classic period El Pilar: The Gini index and labor investment

Horn,

Tran,

Ford

2023

Ancient Mesoam

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Survey teams at the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve for Maya Flora and Fauna have mapped 70 percent of its 20 km2 area and revealed the extent of settlement around the city center. Large-scale civic architecture, and the distribution of smaller ceremonial groups and minor centers, reflect the wealth and power of Maya rulers presiding over the largest Classic period city in the upper Belize River area. Previous analyses suggest disparities in wealth at El Pilar were more nuanced than the elite/commoner dichotomy commonly invoked for Classic Maya society. This article works to understand wealth inequality at ancient El Pilar by computing Gini coefficients from areal and volumetric calculations of primary residential units—the class of settlement remains most likely to represent ancient households. Presentation of Gini coefficients and their potential interpretations follows a discussion of settlement classification and residential group labor investment. We conclude by contextualizing these results within prior settlement pattern analyses to explore how disparities in wealth may have been distributed across the physical and social landscape.

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Quantitative analyses of wealth inequality at Classic period El Pilar: The Gini index and labor investment

Horn,

Tran,

Ford

2023

Ancient Mesoam

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“…Various economic tree and plant species are planted and tended in contemporary Maya communities, including many with medical uses recorded in ethnographic research (Abramiuk et al 2011; Anderson 1995; Atran et al 2004; Avilez-López et al 2020; Balick and Arvigo 2015; Barrera Marín et al 1976; Berlin et al 1974; Blanco and Thiagarajan 2017; Breedlove and Laughlin 1993a, 1993b; Casagrande 2002; Castañeda Medinilla and Aceituno de García 1978; Cook 2016; Hanks 1990; Kashanipour and McGee 2004; Kufer et al 2005; Pérez-Nicolás et al 2017; Redfield 1950; Thiel and Quinlan 2020; Walshe-Roussel et al 2019). In some cases, the Maya even set aside parts of the forest as reserves that included medicinal plants (Anderson 1995:141).…”

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Health Care in the Marketplace: Exploring Maya Medicinal Plants and Practices at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

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Botanical residues recovered from excavations in the Southeast Marketplace of Piedras Negras provide information about the healing and medical activities of the site's Classic period (a.d. 350–900) inhabitants, and point towards the intersection between commerce and medicine for the ancient Maya. The plants were likely exchanged at the market then used on-site for the purposes of healing. The botanical remains are complemented by both architectural and bioarchaeological evidence for healing at this locus, including a high concentration of sweatbaths and evidence for palliative tooth extraction. With the aid of ethnohistory, we identify health care practices potentially associated with the plant remains. However, we expand on basic understandings of “healing” with a critical look at how some medicinal plants may have been ritually invoked, even when never directly ingested or applied topically.

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Hervir y moler: descifrando técnicas de elaboración de alimentos a través del análisis microscópico de los granos de almidón recolectados en contextos arqueológicos mesoamericanos

Cagnato

2019

Itinerarios

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Desde una perspectiva arqueológica, la recuperación y análisis de granos de almidón –microscópicos gránulos producidos por un gran número de plantas, a través de los cuales es posible identificar el género o especie de una planta– permiten comprender el uso de las plantas en el pasado. Además de determinar las especies de plantas que fueron consumidas en el pasado, los granos de almidón proporcionan importantes indicios para descifrar las técnicas de elaboración de alimentos que fueron empleadas. Este artículo ofrece una breve introducción respecto a la biología de los granos de almidón y las técnicas utilizadas para su extracción de artefactos antiguos. Además, se presentan los resultados del estudio realizado a varios artefactos mesoamericanos (vasijas y manos de moler) y, asimismo, desde una perspectiva microscópica, se trata de reconstruir las técnicas probablemente utilizadas por antiguas sociedades mesoamericanas para elaborar alimentos.

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The Lacandon Rain Forest

Cited by 3 publications

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Quantitative analyses of wealth inequality at Classic period El Pilar: The Gini index and labor investment

Quantitative analyses of wealth inequality at Classic period El Pilar: The Gini index and labor investment

Health Care in the Marketplace: Exploring Maya Medicinal Plants and Practices at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

Hervir y moler: descifrando técnicas de elaboración de alimentos a través del análisis microscópico de los granos de almidón recolectados en contextos arqueológicos mesoamericanos

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