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Community and Difference: Change in Late Classic Maya Villages of the Petexbatn Region

Community and Difference: Change in Late Classic Maya Villages of the Petexbatn Region

Eberl, Markus

Hardcover

Series: Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology, Book 8

ArchaeologyCentral American HistoryMexican History

ISBN10: 0826519016
ISBN13: 9780826519016
Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr
Published: Dec 23 2014
Pages: 472
Weight: 3.36
Height: 1.22 Width: 8.53 Depth: 10.68
Language: English
Through the use of sophisticated ceramic chronology techniques, the author documents how small farming communities like Nacimiento and Dos Ceibas grew from hamlets in the seventh century A.D. into villages with several hundred inhabitants. He traces how local elites emerged during the eighth century A.D. and built outsized residential groups.

Mutual exchanges in these villages leveled material wealth, but also translated into social status and legitimized social inequality. As settings for public rituals, these exchanges helped integrate the communities, while individual households conducted domestic rituals that included ancestor veneration, dedication offerings, and termination rituals.


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