The Monuments and Inscriptions of Tikal--The Carved Monuments

Jones, Christopher P.; Satterthwaite, Linton; Coe, William R.

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“…The tombs with texts all date to times when a given ruler was alive and in the mid-point of their reign. This is a very different situation than what is reported for Pakal at Palenque (Stuart 2005;Tiesler and Cucina 2006) or for Jasaw Chan K'awiil at Tikal (Coe 1990;Jones and Satterthwaite 1982), both of whom are associated with dated texts. The tombs that have been recovered at Caracol indicate many more significant individuals than are indicated in the hieroglyphic texts, perhaps suggesting that Marcus' (1992) view of Maya history as manufactured propaganda may have more applicability than we care to admit.…”

Section: History and Archaeologymentioning

confidence: 42%

Caracol, Belize, and Changing Perceptions of Ancient Maya Society

Chase

2016

J Archaeol Res

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Archaeological research at Caracol, an ancient Maya site that was rediscovered in 1937, has become a major resource in the interpretation and understanding of the ancient Maya. Caracol, in west-central Belize, is situated in a subtropical region once characterized as being unsuitable for the development or maintenance of complex societies, yet it is one of the largest, if not the largest Classic period Maya site in the southern Maya Lowlands, home to over 100,000 people at its height between AD 600 and 700. The investigations at Caracol underscore the utility of long-term archaeological projects incorporating large-scale settlement study that combine excavation with varied research designs and the use of a contextual approach. By employing Maya epigraphic history, traditional archaeology, and modern technology like LiDAR, research at Caracol details the rise, maintenance, and fall of an ancient Maya city, affording a large window into ancient Maya lifeways. Archaeological work provides evidence of sustainable agriculture, a market economy, city planning that included a road system, the impact of warfare on the site's inhabitants, the sociopolitical status of women, the role that archaeology can play in refining written history, and the significance of commemorating the cyclical passage of time to the ancient Maya. This article

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Caracol, Belize, and Changing Perceptions of Ancient Maya Society

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2016

J Archaeol Res

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“…724 – 661 = 63 years). They also provide a growth rate of sapodilla at 1.185 mm per year (cf., Jones and Satterthwaite ), yielding a result of 2.9 inches (63 × 1.185 = 74.7 mm; 74.7 mm ÷ 25.4 mm per inch = 2.9 inches). These 2.9 inches correspond to the amount of material that would have been removed for Kennett et al ’s results to be accurate and the lintel wood to have been procured for the building of Jasaw Chan K'awiil's funerary monument.…”

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¹⁴C and Maya Long Count Dates: Using Bayesian Modelling to Develop Robust Site Chronologies

2015

Archaeometry

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Bayesian statistics has now demonstrated its strong utility in archaeology, specifically through software that conditions radiocarbon data. Only recently has this technology been applied within Maya archaeology, however, in part because the Maya calendar provides a much greater resolution in dating archaeological events than is possible with radiocarbon data. The Long Count in particular allows for the assignment of some events relative to each other, accurate to the day. In this paper, a new approach is presented to incorporate robust records of both in the same Bayesian analysis through the OxCal software. The results do call for a reconsideration of the earliest radiocarbon studies in the Maya area from the 1960s, as well as the latest attempts to corroborate the currently popular calendar correlation known as the GMT. This new study demonstrates the value of the approach and corroborates the 1σ accuracy of the GMT, while at the same time opening up the possibility of revision by 20 or more years.

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“…68 Similarly, Tikal Altar 5 appears to depict the exhumation of a named ancestor. 66,69 At the same time, there are several known deposits of decapitated skulls that appear to be the product of individual or mass human sacri-®ce. 70 Where might Oaxacan ancestral skulls have come from?…”

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Culturally modified skeletal remains from the site of Huamelulpan, Oaxaca, Mexico

Christensen

Winter

1997

Int. J. Osteoarchaeol.

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A series of crania from the site of Huamelulpan, Oaxaca, Mexico (400 BC to AD 800), were examined. Four showed notable cultural modifications. One exhibited a healed trephination, while the other three were perforated through the frontal. The cultural context and significance of these modifications is discussed, especially in relationship to the site of Monte Albán, where trephination was more common than anywhere else in Mesoamerica. The post‐mortem cranial perforations appear to be connected with the practice of ancestor veneration. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The Monuments and Inscriptions of Tikal--The Carved Monuments

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Caracol, Belize, and Changing Perceptions of Ancient Maya Society

Caracol, Belize, and Changing Perceptions of Ancient Maya Society

¹⁴C and Maya Long Count Dates: Using Bayesian Modelling to Develop Robust Site Chronologies

Culturally modified skeletal remains from the site of Huamelulpan, Oaxaca, Mexico

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