Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Parmington
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya

Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 457-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa J. Lucero
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya

scholarly journals BUILDING HIGH-PRECISION AMS 14C BAYESIAN MODELS FOR THE FORMATION OF PERI-ABANDONMENT DEPOSITS AT BAKING POT, BELIZE

Radiocarbon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Julie A Hoggarth ◽  
Brendan J Culleton ◽  
Jaime J Awe ◽  
Christophe Helmke ◽  
Sydney Lonaker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Models ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Maya Lowlands ◽  
Human Skeletal Remains ◽  
Late Ninth Century ◽  
Baking Pot ◽  
Group B

ABSTRACT Deposits linked to abandonment have been widely recorded across the Maya lowlands, associated with the final activities occurring in ceremonial areas of Classic Maya centers. Various models have been applied to explain the activities that lie behind the formation of these contexts, including those linked to rapid abandonment (e.g., warfare) and others focused on more protracted events (termination rituals, and/or pilgrimages). Here, we assess Bayesian models for three chronological scenarios of varying tempo to explain the formation of peri-abandonment deposits at Baking Pot, Belize. Using stratigraphic information from these deposits, hieroglyphic dates recovered on artifacts, and direct dates on human skeletal remains and faunal remains from distinct layers in three deposits in Group B at Baking Pot, we identify multiple depositional events that spanned the eighth to ninth centuries AD. These results suggest that the processes associated with the breakdown of institutionalized rulership and its command of labor to construct and maintain ceremonial spaces were protracted at Baking Pot, with evidence for the final depositional activity dated to the mid-to-late ninth century. This interval of deposition was temporally distinct from the earlier deposition(s) in the eighth century. Together, these data offer a detailed view of the end of the Classic period at Baking Pot, in which the ceremonial spaces of the site slowly fell into disuse over a period of more than a century.

The Funerary Temple among the Classic Maya

1956 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Coe
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya

The Classic Maya Collapse: Testing Class Conflict Hypotheses

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Hamblin ◽  
Brian L. Pitcher
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
Testing Class ◽  
Lowland Area ◽  
Maya Collapse

Several lines of archaeological evidence are presented in this paper to suggest the existence of class warfare among the Classic Maya and of issues that historically have been associated with class conflict. This evidence indicates that class warfare may have halted the rule of the monument-producing, or Classic, elites and precipitated the depopulation of the lowland area. The theory is evaluated quantitatively by testing for time-related mathematical patterns that have been found to characterize large-scale conflicts in historical societies. The information used in the evaluation involves the time series data on the duration of rule by Classic elites as inferred from the production of monuments with Long Count dates at a sample of 82 ceremonial centers. The analyses confirm that the Maya data do exhibit the temporal and geographical patterns predicted from the class conflict explanation of the Classic Maya collapse. Alternative predictions from the other theories are considered but generally not found to be supported by these data.

The Bicephalic Monster in Classic Maya Sculpture

1982 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Cohodas
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya

Numeral Classifiers and Counted Nouns in the Classic Maya Inscriptions

2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha J. Macri
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya ◽  
Numeral Classifiers ◽  
Mayan Languages

Yucatecan, Ch’olan, and Tzeltalan languages have numeral classifiers which obligatorily follow numbers. Although such classifiers are not present in every number expression, several numeral classifiers occur frequently in the Classic Maya inscriptions. The most common of them, the period glyphs, constitute a feature which distinguishes Maya inscriptions from Mixe-Zoquean inscriptions, since the classifiers required in Mayan languages do not occur in Mixe-Zoquean languages. Any glyph immediately following bar/dot numbers should be examined carefully for that possibility. Several morphemes which immediately follow numbers are discussed here, and evaluated for the likelihood of their having functioned as classifiers.

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