Review of Heterarchy, Political Economy, and the Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatan Peninsula edited by Vernon L. Scarborough, Fred Valdez Jr., and Nicholas Dunning

2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-383
Author(s):  
Terry Rugeley
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
East Central ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Three Rivers Region ◽  
Three Rivers

AN EARLY ROYAL MAYA TOMB FROM CHAN CHICH, BELIZE

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett A. Houk ◽  
Hubert R. Robichaux ◽  
Fred Valdez
Keyword(s):  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
East Central ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Three Rivers Region ◽  
Archaeological Project ◽  
Early Classic Period ◽  
Three Rivers

AbstractIn 1997, the Chan Chich Archaeological Project excavated a Terminal Preclassic/Early Classic period Maya tomb at Chan Chich, Belize. Tomb 2 represents the earliest royal tomb in the Three Rivers Region of the east-central Yucatan Peninsula and has striking similarities to Burial 85 at Tikal, the tomb of the dynastic founder Yax Ehb' Xook. This paper describes Tomb 2 and its contents and considers its significance within the context of the significant political and cultural changes that marked the transition from the Late Preclassic to the Early Classic period. We argue that the tomb is an early example of a regional expression of elite competition for status and power in the Central Lowlands that included the use of a subcomplex of ceramics and exotic artifacts to express prestige. Tomb 2 is also an example of an early royal burial pattern that may be more widespread than believed but has been overlooked due to excavation bias.

Maya political history - Ellen E. Bell, Marcello A. Canuto & Robert J. Sharer (ed.). Understanding Early Classic Copan. xvii+439 pages, 135 figures, 14 colour photographs, 11 tables. 2004. Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology; 1-931707-51-0 hardback $59.95. - Vernon L. Scarborough, Fred ValdezJr . & Nicholas Dunning (ed.). Heterarchy, political economy, and the ancient Maya: the Three Rivers region of the east-central Yucatán peninsula. xx+172 pages, 54 figures, 4 tables. 2003. Tucson (AZ): University of Arizona Press; 0-8165-2273-1 hardback $55. - Matthew G. Looper. Lightning Warrior: Maya art and kingship at Quirigua. xi+265 pages, 241 figures, 12 tables. 2003. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-70556-5 hardback $59.95. - Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice & Don S. Rice (ed.). The Terminal Classic in the Maya lowlands: collapse, transition, and transformation. xix+676 pages, 125 figures, 27 tables. 2004. Boulder (CO): University Press of Colorado; 0-87081-739-6 hardback. - C. Roger Nance, Stephen L. Whittington & Barbara E. Borg with George Guillemin & Sergio Rodas Manrique. Archaeology and ethnohistory of Iximché. xxiv+408 pages, 161 figures, 80 tables. 2003. Gainesville (FL): University Press of Florida; 0-8130-2633-4 hardback $65.

Antiquity ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (303) ◽  
pp. 210-214
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Graham
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Maya Lowlands ◽  
East Central ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Terminal Classic ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Three Rivers Region ◽  
Three Rivers

Classic to Postclassic at Ek Balam, Yucatan: Architectural and Ceramic Evidence for Defining the Transition

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Bey ◽  
Craig A. Hanson ◽  
William M. Ringle
Keyword(s):  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
General Study ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Maya Lowlands ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Terminal Classic ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Ek Balam

The Classic-to-Postclassic transition in the Maya Lowlands is a focus of contemporary debate. At the site of Ek Balam, Yucatán, excavation of Structure GS-12 provided an architectural stratigraphy that spans this period. GS-12-sub was a Late Classic (Pure Florescent) building razed during the construction of GS-12-1, a C-shaped structure of a form generally identified with Postclassic occupations on the Yucatán Peninsula. At Ek Balam the building is associated with Cehpech-sphere ceramics and dated to the Terminal Classic. These data are in general agreement with the dating of such structures at other lowland sites including Uxmal. We contend that C-shaped structures, when found associated with Cehpech-sphere ceramics, are a horizon marker for the Terminal Classic-to-Postclassic transition on the Yucatán Peninsula, and that they illustrate the culture changes that occurred at this still poorly understood boundary. They may be the remains of administrative buildings used by the Maya following the cessation of monumental construction at major centers. Besides contributing to our understanding of the ancient Maya, the implications of this article extend to the general study of collapse and abandonment of complex societies.

scholarly journals Astronomical aspects of Group E-type complexes and implications for understanding ancient Maya architecture and urban planning

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0250785
Author(s):  
Ivan Šprajc
Keyword(s):  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Astronomical Observatory ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Multiple Hypotheses ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Maya Architecture ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

In the 1920s, during the first archaeological excavations at Uaxactún, Petén, Guatemala, an architectural complex named Group E was interpreted as an ancient Maya astronomical observatory, intended specifically for sighting the equinoctial and solstitial sunrises. In the following decades, a large number of architectural compounds with the same configuration have been found, most of them in the central lowlands of the Yucatan peninsula. The multiple hypotheses that have been proposed about the astronomical function of these complexes, commonly designated as E Groups, range from those attributing them a paramount role in astronomical observations to those that consider them merely allegorical or commemorative allusions to celestial cycles, without any observational use. This study, based on quantitative analyses of a reasonably large sample of alignment data, as well as on contextual evidence, shows that many of the previous hypotheses cannot be sustained. I argue that E Groups, although built primarily for ritual purposes, were astronomically functional, but also that they had no specific or particularly prominent role in astronomical observations. Their orientations belong to widespread alignment groups, mostly materialized in buildings of other types and explicable in terms of some fundamental concerns of the agriculturally-based Maya societies. I present the evidence demonstrating that the astronomical orientations initially embedded in E Groups, which represent the earliest standardized form of Maya monumental architecture and whose occurrence in practically all early cities in the central Yucatan peninsula attests to their socio-political significance, were later transferred to buildings and compounds of other types. Therefore, it is precisely the importance of the astronomically and cosmologically significant directions, first incorporated in E Groups, that allows us to understand some prominent aspects of ancient Maya architecture and urbanism.

Octopus maya parasites off the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. II. Salivary gland damage by cestodes

2018 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Guillén-Hernández ◽  
C González-Salas ◽  
D Pech-Puch ◽  
H Villegas-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Salivary Gland ◽  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Octopus Maya

COASTAL CARBONATE CRITICAL ZONES: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE YUCATAN PENINSULA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan B. Martin ◽  
◽  
Andrea J. Pain ◽  
Caitlin Young ◽  
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson
Keyword(s):  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula ◽  
Critical Zones

A CONTINUOUS 100 THOUSAND-YEAR STALAGMITE Δ18O RECORD FROM THE YUCATAN PENINSULA: IMPLICATIONS FOR CARIBBEAN HYDROCLIMATE ON ORBITAL AND MILLENNIAL TIMESCALES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Hill ◽  
◽  
Martin Medina-Elizalde ◽  
Stephen J. Burns ◽  
David McGee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula

Tropical fossil mitogenomes: Holocene biogeography of two codistributed rodent genera from the Yucatán peninsula

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 103028
Author(s):  
Tania A. Gutiérrez-García ◽  
Kyle J. Shaney ◽  
Ella Vázquez-Domínguez ◽  
Jacob Enk ◽  
Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales
Keyword(s):  
Yucatan Peninsula ◽  
Yucatán Peninsula
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