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Ancient Maya Afterlife Iconography: Traveling Between Worlds
The ancient Maya afterlife is a rich and voluminous topic. Unfortunately, much of the material currently utilized for interpretations about the ancient Maya comes from publications written after contact by the Spanish or from artifacts with no context, likely looted items. Both sources of …
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Water resource management by the ancient Maya of Yucatan, Mexico
… for tales from exotic places, scholars of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica have been fascinated with the silent crumbling remains of ancient Maya cities that dot the cultural landscape of Yucatán in staggering numbers. Scientific research began in earnest nearly one hundred years ago …
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Diet and Behavior of Ancient Maya: Using Dental Wear Patterns
… differential access to both resources and food. Ancient Maya groups from the Upper Belize Valley during the Classic period (700- 900 years ago) demonstrated distinct social stratification and possibly differential food access. Although direct dietary observations are not possible for past …
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The Palenque mapping project: settlement and urbanism at an ancient Maya city
… Project (1998-2000) intensively surveyed the ancient Maya ruins of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico. The project covered 2.2 square kilometers of the city’s jungle shrouded plateau, documenting 1481 structures and over 16 linear kilometers of terracing. After a brief summary of Palenque’s mapping …
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Case Studies in Ancient Maya Human-Animal Relations: El Perú, La Corona, and Commensal Mammals
The ancient Maya of Mesoamerica inhabited a biodiverse landscape filled with animal taxa that provided both physical resources and rich ideological inspiration. To date, faunal studies among the Maya have been more limited than other types of archaeological investigations, leaving much still …
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Power and Pressure: Frailty as a Measure of Cumulative Stress Among Ancient Maya Royals from Belize
… time of death. The thought that elite status in ancient Maya buffers individuals from physiological stress due to better access to resources has been challenged in recent years. Skeletal age and sex were estimated following standard techniques. Six skeletal and dental frailty biomarkers were …
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Can an Iconological Analysis of a Classic Period Vase (K1485) Further our Understanding of Ancient Maya Skyscapes?
… analysis to the painting on the Classic period Maya vase (K1485), referred to here as ‘The Vase of the Count of Days’, to investigate and identify potential cosmological or celestial content and, using a definition of the term skyscape as defined by Fabio Silva, to evaluate whether this image …
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Garden Soils: Reviewing the Viability of Soil Phosphate Analyses in the Archaeological Identification of Ancient Maya Kitchen Gardens
<p>The study of ancient Maya intensive, intra-site agricultural systems, such as kitchen gardens, has gained new interest in recent years as a valuable way of interpreting numerous aspects of the ancient Maya's daily life (e.g. subsistence and settlement patterns, population growth, diet and …
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The Maya Footprint: Soil Resources of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico
… thin soils, and low fertility. Despite this, the ancient Maya city of Chunchucmil Yucatán, Mexico, boasted an immense, dense, and wealthy population during the Middle Classic period (ca A.D. 400-700). Soil physical and chemical properties were explored to determine how the ancient Maya of …
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Lowland Maya lime plaster technology: a diachronic approach
… Lime plasters were widely used by the ancient Maya in public monumental buildings and constitute important elements of ancient Maya material culture. This research analyses archaeological samples of lime plasters from three different lowland Maya sites: Palenque, Calakmul and Lamanai. …
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BURIED CONTRIBUTIONS: UNCOVERING THE ROLE OF THE LIVING MAYA IN EARLY MAYANIST ARCHAEOLOGY
Living Maya people have long been rendered by Western researchers, or Mayanists, in racialized, demeaning, and condescending ways that contrast with the reverence these academics hold for the materiality of the ancient Maya past. My dissertation turns a decolonial lens onto the origins of this …
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Earth. Water. Sky. The Liminal Landscape of the Maya Sweatbath
This dissertation investigates the ancient healing tradition of the Maya sweatbath, its landscape, and rituals, which after three millennia is still practiced today among the contemporary Maya. Frequently overlooked because of its size, the ancient Maya sweatbath's location in ancient ceremonial …
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In service of the king: The form, function, and chronology of courtyard A-3 at Chan Chich, Belize
Over the span of its history, the ancient Maya site of Chan Chich, in northwestern Belize underwent drastic shifts in its political, economic, and social environment. A total of 28 days of excavations in the site core of Chan Chich, and subsequent analyses, have generated extensive data sets …
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Soil Stable Carbon Isoptope Analysis of Landscape Features at Aguateca, Guatemala
The ancient Maya of the Classic period (1700-1050 B.P.) relied on maize agriculture to support their populations. The agricultural systems they employed to produce that maize varied in form and degree of intensity, with more productive forms of agriculture needed in the Late Classic period …
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The Application of Pedology, Stable Carbon Isotope Analyses and Geographic Information Systems to Ancient Soil Resource Investigations at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
<p>The ancient inhabitants of the Maya Lowlands enjoyed a long and fruitful period of growth which climaxed at around AD 800. At that time, millions of people successfully subsisted in a challenging environment that today only supports a population a fraction of that size. These facts, and the …
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Age-at-Formation and Duration of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia and Accentuated (Pathological) Striae in Ancient, Modern, and Forensic Populations as an Indicator of Differential Developmental Stress
… (AS) in the mandibular canines of pre-Hispanic Maya individuals from Belize, migrants who died crossing the Texas-Mexico border, and modern American individuals from the Texas State Donated Skeletal Collection (TXSTDSC). LEH and AS, as representative of stress events, were measured using a …
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The past as a constituent of the present: Social waters and posthumanism at Cara Blanca, Belize
… Most prominently, the pools are home to ancient Maya ceremonial architecture and ritual remains that emerged and were accessed by Maya during a period of prolonged and severe droughts in the Terminal Classic period (800-900 CE). Almost 27,000 years earlier, the pools were visited by …
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Conversion and Culture Change in a Highland Maya Community
… Tzotzil Indians of Chiapas, Mexico is a blend of ancient Maya and Spanish Catholic elements. Recently Protestant missionaries and lay workers have entered the area, with varying degrees of success. One of these evangelizing· movements has been carried out by members of the Seventh-day Adventist …
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Art, Ideology, and Politics at El Achiotal: A Late Preclassic Frontier Site in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala
… Preclassic Period: ca. 400 BCE - 250 CE) at the ancient Maya site of El Achiotal, in northwestern Guatemala. The foundation for my arguments relies principally on the documentation and analysis of archaeological materials and iconographic programs, primarily associated with two construction …
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The health and biodiversity of the ancestral maya forest: A zooarchaeological perspective
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms