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Journal articles on the topic "Copan, Honduras"

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Davis-Salazar, Karla L. "LATE CLASSIC MAYA DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL AT COPAN, HONDURAS." Ancient Mesoamerica 17, no. 1 (January 2006): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536106060019.

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Recent research on pre-Hispanic Maya water management has revealed a diverse array of water-control techniques that were employed in the Maya Lowlands. Since much of this research has focused on water management for consumption and agriculture, other forms of water management—namely, for drainage and flood control—remain poorly understood. This report describes the various water-control techniques dedicated to drainage and flood control at Late Classic Copan, Honduras (a.d.600–900), and explores the social implications of this form of water control. Technological variation in water control throughout urban Copan and between Copan and Palenque, the other major Maya center where drainage and flood control have been investigated, suggests that water management at Copan may have been organized differentially across the urban center.
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Pineda de Carías, María C., Nohemy L. Rivera, and Cristina M. Argueta. "STELA D: A SUNDIAL AT COPAN, HONDURAS." Ancient Mesoamerica 28, no. 2 (2017): 543–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536116000286.

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AbstractThe Maya of Copan, Honduras used Stela D, its altar, and the surrounding structures as a sundial to record time. Archaeological investigations show that wooden posts and stelae could have been used to measure time and to perform associated rites in the northern sector of the Main Plaza of the Copan Archaeological Park. We constructed a digital model of Stela D to study the shadows cast at different times of day and on different dates of the year, such as solstices, equinoxes, and solar zenith passages. The size and orientation of the shadows may have served as a time marker that ancient residents of Copan used to accurately track the tropical year. We also found evidence that supports the iconographic interpretation of an analogy between serpents’ bodies that adorn the figure of the ruler on Stela D and shadows and sun positions on dates of major solar events that form a solar calendar that counts years from winter solstice day.
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Hodder, Ian, and David Webster. "The House of the Bacabs, Copan, Honduras." Journal of Field Archaeology 17, no. 3 (1990): 346. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/530033.

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Manahan, T. Kam, and Marcello A. Canuto. "Bracketing the Copan Dynasty: Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic Settlements at Copan, Honduras." Latin American Antiquity 20, no. 4 (December 2009): 553–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s104566350000287x.

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AbstractArchaeological research within the Classic Maya center of Copan and in its surrounding rural regions has generated new data relating to the periods both preceding and following the center’s Classic period dynasty. Recent excavations at both Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic settlements have revealed more similarities between the inhabitants of these two “non-Classic” time periods than to the inhabitants of the intervening and better known Classic period. We explore this striking set of similarities in terms of settlement pattern, spatial organization, architecture, material culture, and ritual deposits and spaces. We suggest that the similarities between the Copan region’s Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic populations and their mutual differences with intervening Classic period peoples reflecta cultural connection between these two populations.
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Webster, David, Nancy Gonlin, and Payson Sheets. "Copan and Ceren." Ancient Mesoamerica 8, no. 1 (1997): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100001565.

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AbstractThe volcanic eruption that buried Cerén, El Salvador, ata.d.590 preserved an extraordinary array of artifacts and features in or near their original positions. Household inventories are virtually complete, and activities can be reconstructed in almost ethnographic detail. It is therefore tempting to think that Cerén will automatically make less-well-preserved contexts at similar sites more explicable. This proposition is tested by comparing Cerén with a well-excavated set of household remains from seven small rural sites in the Copan Valley, Honduras, which have been much more heavily transformed by cultural and natural processes. Comparison is especially attractive because both the Cerén and Copan sites were small domestic places with similar social, residential, and economic functions. Both sets of sites also share a common basic cultural tradition on the southern periphery of Mesoamerica, and are in reasonably similar upland environmental settings.
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Abrams, Elliot M. "Economic Specialization and Construction Personnel in Classic Period Copan, Honduras." American Antiquity 52, no. 3 (July 1987): 485–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/281595.

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The degree of development of specialist positions associated with large-scale construction at the Maya site of Copan, Honduras, is evaluated. The methodology used involves the quantification of energy, in human labor, which was expended in the construction of Str. 10L-22, a major palace in the Main Center of Copan. The results suggest that few specialists were required, and that the vast majority of construction personnel were unspecialized conscripts. Moreover, the absolute energetic investment was low, suggesting that energetic expenditures in largescale architecture could not have been a major source of stress on the Late Classic Maya socioeconomic system.
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Rue, David J., AnnCorinne Freter, and Diane A. Ballinger. "The Caverns of Copan Revisited: Preclassic Sites in the Sesesmil River Valley, Copan, Honduras." Journal of Field Archaeology 16, no. 4 (1989): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/530277.

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Cheek, Charles D. "MAYA COMMUNITY BUILDINGS: Two Late Classicpopal nahsat Copan, Honduras." Ancient Mesoamerica 14, no. 1 (January 2003): 131–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536103141028.

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The Spaniards described a particular type of Maya building found in the center of Maya cities that served multiple functions, from temporary homes for men and boys to council houses. This type of building, labeled apopol nahat Copan, was noted in Yucatan and the highlands of Guatemala. Two probablepopol nahs, Structures 10L-223 and 10L-22A, have been identified at Copan, Honduras, suggesting continuity in this building type into at least the Maya Late Classic period. The differences between the two structures in both location and form support the idea of competing lineages in the Late Classic. These differences also suggest that the later rulers may have transformed earlier multifunction buildings into more specific functions that served their political needs.
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Fash, William L. "A new look at Maya statecraft from Copan, Honduras." Antiquity 62, no. 234 (March 1988): 157–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00073646.

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The revelations in the study of the Ancient Maya made possible by the revolution in hieroglyphic decipherment have not occurred in isolation. Archaeological investigations within the last three decades have produced a much broader vision of Maya society during the Classic Period than previously possible. Particularly, the study of settlement patterns in conjunction with environmental studies has opened new vistas onto the size and organization of the populations which supported the rulers in their civic-ceremonial centres (Ashmore 1981; Culbert & Rice n.d.). The challenge for the present, and future, is to combine the archaeological record with the studies of inscriptions and politico-religious symbolism, to build a more complete and incisive reconstruction of the past. Where the two records are particularly clear and abundant, we may also aspire to explaining the past.
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Gorokhovich, Yuri, Karin A. Block, Cameron L. McNeil, Edy Barrios, and Maria Marionkova. "Mercury source in Copan (Honduras): Local mining or trade?" Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33 (October 2020): 102471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102471.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Copan, Honduras"

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Mortensen, Lena. "Constructing heritage at Copan, Honduras an ethnography of the archaeology industry /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204306.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0239. Adviser: Richard R. Wilk. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 22, 2007)."
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Edwards, Keith. "A proposed methodology for predicting the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope measures of K'inich Yax K'uk Mo', Copan dynastic founder." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4887.

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The purpose of this thesis is to show that stable isotope analysis can be used to predict K'inich Yax K'uk Mo's stable isotope measures based on Stuart's (2007) hypothesis that K'inich Yax K'uk Mo', the dynastic founder of the Copan royal lineage, was a Caracol lord. There is significant and convincing evidence that K'inich Yak K'uk Mo' had a non-Copanec origin. Stable isotope analysis is a tested and reliable method for detailing diets and migratory paths of ancient humans and this theory is applied as a predictor of the stable isotope measures of K'inich Yax K'uk Mo', if he did in fact originate in Caracol. The literature is rich with explanations of stable isotopes and the writings of a few stalwarts in the field were utilized to gain an understanding of the associated technologies and techniques utilized in its analysis. Data from the Copan (Whittington and Reed 1997) and Caracol (Chase and Chase 2001) stable isotope studies were utilized to show the application of stable isotope analysis in areas "associated" with K'inich Yax K'uk Mo' and to illustrate how the palace diet identified by Chase and Chase (2001; Chase et al. 2001) could be aligned with the Stuart hypothesis to predict the stable isotope ranges for K'inich Yax K'uk Mo'.
ID: 030423403; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-79).
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White, Patricia J. "Reconstructing Ancient and Modern Land Use Decisions in the Copan Valley, Honduras:A GIS Landscape Archaeology Perspective." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1448275319.

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O'Connor, John Patrick. "Enhancing the ministry effectiveness of rural evangelical pastors in Copán, Honduras." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Brown, Bryce Matthew. "Ancient Maya Agricultural Resources in the Rio Amarillo Valley near Copán, Honduras." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6121.

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The purpose of this study was to use soil physical and chemical analyses to better understand the ancient agricultural landscape around the ancient Maya cities of Rio Amarillo and Piedras Negras, two tributary sites to Copan, Honduras. Our primary objective was to determine whether a mass erosion event around 800 A.D. occurred which could have caused crop failure and famine or if stable soil conditions persisted during the collapse of these city-states. Stable carbon isotope analysis of the humin fraction of the soils showed that much of this valley was used anciently for agriculture, including hillslopes and hilltops; however, there is no evidence of mass erosion in the soil profiles. Soil horizon development and texture is consistent with stable soil conditions in this area. The demise of these city-states was likely caused by a variety of factors including warfare and political unrest, and not solely by environmental degradation as postulated in previous studies of the valley.
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Fierer-Donaldson, Molly. "To Be Born an Ancestor: Death and the Afterlife among the Classic Period Royal Tombs of Copán, Honduras." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10459.

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This goal of this dissertation is to participate in the study of funerary ritual for the Classic Maya. My approach evaluates comparatively the seven royal mortuary contexts from the city of Copán, Honduras during the Classic period from the early 5th century to early 9th century CE, in order to draw out the ideas that infused the ritual behavior. It is concerned with analyzing the tomb as a ritual context that is a materialization of a community's ideas about death and the afterlife. The heart is the data gathered from my participation in the excavation of the Classic period royal tomb called the Oropéndola Tomb. In addition to the archaeological data, the project draws from ethnohistoric, ethnographic, epigraphic, and iconographic sources as important loci for ideas of how to interpret the archaeological data. The project stands at the intersection of the work by Patricia McAnany's (1995; 1998; 1999) on the role of ancestors in Maya life, James Fitzsimmon's (2002, 2009) comparison of mortuary ritual across sites, and Meredith Chesson's (2001c) study on the relationship between social memory, identity and mortuary practice. The analysis of the Oropéndola Tomb and its comparison to other royal tombs at Copán was an opportunity to investigate our understanding of Classic Maya conceptualizations of death and the afterlife within one city. After a consideration of how to identify a Maya royal tomb, I was able to confirm that the Oropéndola Tomb is a royal tomb that likely belonged to one of rulers of the site during the second half of the 5th century CE, and that it contains funerary offerings that reflect the identity of the deceased in his role as a warrior and contains information reflecting how the Maya of Classic period Copán conceptualized the afterlife.
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"Excavation and interpretation in the northeastern acropolis, Copan, Honduras." UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3328696.

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"Excavations in El Cementerio, Group 10L-2, Copan, Honduras." Tulane University, 2001.

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This study examines Late to Terminal Classic Maya evidence excavated from a small area of the south sector of the Main Group at Copan, Honduras, known as El Cementerio. Located in El Cementerio are a group of crude platforms where low-status retainers performed work in support of their elite masters residing in the adjacent courtyards. This is an investigation of the household and workshop areas in the central residential area of the Copan ruling dynasty in its final stages. The humble, cobble-faced platforms of El Cementerio that originally held wattle-and-daub buildings stand in contrast to the elaborately constructed and decorated elite structures immediately next door. Clarification of these architectural relationships and examination of the distribution of refuse middens in the area illuminates the social relationships of the occupants of these structures. Artifacts from the cobble-faced platforms provide a view of work areas situated outside the high-status residences, and comparison of different assemblages of these artifacts gives better understanding of the activities undertaken there
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"INTERPRETING THE INTEGRATIVE STRATEGIES OF THE CLASSIC PERIOD COPÁN POLITY ON ITS SOUTHEASTERN FRONTIER IN WESTERN HONDURAS." Tulane University, 2018.

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This dissertation models integrative strategies pertaining the Classic Period (AD 200-900), Copan polity of western Honduras on the frontier of the Maya world. Past scholarship on integrative strategies is largely based on comparative analyses of empires, the largest and most diverse political entities of the ancient world. However, as is argued on the basis of new fieldwork, integrative strategies can be successfully employed at smaller scale polities, such as Maya polities, since these strategies are not sensitive to either population size or heterogeneity. The unique location of the Copán polity on the southeastern frontier of the Maya world in a multi-ethnic area, makes it an attractive area to study Classic Maya integrative strategies. The surrounding populations were non-Maya at the time of Copán’s dynastic foundation making subsequent structural transformations to political systems and styles in those regions highly visible in the archaeological record. The Cucuyagua and Sensenti valleys on the southeastern frontier of the Copán polity were systematically surveyed and excavated as part of this research. A model was created to evaluate whether the Copán polity cultivated territorial relations, hegemonic or transactional relation with the respective valleys. Using this model, I discovered greater convergences in settlement patterns, artistic styles, and economic interaction between Late Classic settlement in the Cucuyagua and Copán valleys than with the more distant Sensenti valley. The construction of a Copán-style secondary center in the Early Classic with nucleated settlement, Copán-style sculpture, and Copán-style palace suggests that this valley was territorially integrated within the Copán polity. In contrast, elites from the Sensenti valley emulated Copán-style residential architecture and consumed Madrugada model-carved pottery that was produced in Copán for inter-elite gift-giving. However, its Late Classic settlement lacked a nucleated center or public imagery referencing the rulers of Copán. Due to that combination of factors, I conclude that this area was hegemonically integrated within the Copán polity. Furthermore, smaller polities, like the Copán polity used the same varied integrative strategies carried out by larger, better known empires.
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"Patterns of variation and change in dynastic period ceramics and ceramic production at Copan, Honduras." Tulane University, 1997.

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The research described in this dissertation concerns the study of Classic period ceramic production at the site of Copan, Honduras, located on the southeast frontier of the Maya area. The primary goal of this study was to examine the relationship between the organization of a local production industry and changes in sociopolitical and demographic conditions. Changes in the organization of ceramic production were measured in terms of the degree and kind of diversity within the ceramic assemblages dating to five subphases of the dynastic period The data indicate a steady increase in the number of pottery-producing units during the first half of the dynastic period (A.D. 400-600) competing for a growing market created by an expanding local population. The second half of the dynastic period is marked by accelerated population growth and the increasing development of a subroyal elite population at Copan. The diversity in utilitarian ceramic products declined throughout this period in conjunction with an increasing trend toward product specialization (the manufacture of specific classes of goods by different production units). The increase in the diversity of fine wares at the beginning of the second half of the dynastic period (A.D. 600-700) reflects a growing number of pottery-making units manufacturing goods for a rapidly expanding elite market. During the period surrounding the decline and collapse of the Copan dynasty (A.D. 800-900), there was a sharp reduction in the manufacture of fine wares, including the discontinuation of certain classes of vessels and a decline in the quality of those that continued to be produced The primary forces affecting the organization of ceramic production at Copan were demographic conditions and the effects of these on the size and configuration of the demand market for ceramic vessels. Aside from the initiation of a local 'Maya-style' ceramic tradition at the beginning of the dynastic period, the effects of sociopolitical developments on the ceramic industry at Copan were minimal. Their only direct affect appears to have involved the growth (and later decline) of an elite market for certain classes of vessels. Ceramic production and distribution at Copan appear to have been outside of the active involvement of a central elite agency
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Books on the topic "Copan, Honduras"

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University of Pennsylvania. University Museum. Early Copan Acropolis program: December, 1997. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1997.

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The artifacts of a royal residence: Group 10L-2, Copan, Honduras. New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 2009.

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Doonan, William F. The artifacts of a royal residence: Group 10L-2, Copan, Honduras. New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 2010.

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Houses in a landscape: Memory and everyday life in Mesoamerica. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

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The Copan Sculpture Museum: Ancient Maya artistry in stucco and stone. Cambridge, Mass: Peabody Museum Press & David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2010.

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Abrams, Elliot Marc. How the Maya built their world: Energetics and ancient architecture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

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Viel, René. Evolución de la cerámica de Copán, Honduras. Tegucigalpa: Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, 1993.

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1957-, Freter AnnCorinne, and Gonlin Nancy, eds. Copán: The rise and fall of an ancient Maya kingdom. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000.

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Rivera, Gilda. Como las siemprevivas, vivas y fuertes, nunca vencidas: Estudio sobre violencia doméstica contra mujeres jóvenes de los municipios de Santa Rosa de Copán y Nueva Arcadia, departamento de Copán, Honduras. Honduras]: Centro de Derechos de Mujeres, 2011.

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Aoyama, Kazuo. Ancient Maya state, urbanism, exchange, and craft specialization: Chipped stone evidence from the Copán Valley and the La Entrada Region, Honduras = Estado, urbanismo, intercambio, y especialización artesanal entre los mayas antiguos : evidencia de lítica menor del Valle de Copán y la región de La Entrada, Honduras. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Anthropology, 1999.

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Goff, Sue, Fraser Goff, Grant Heiken, A. W. Laughlin, Wendell A. Duffield, Alfred H. Truesdell, and Wilmer Flores. "Prefeasibility Geothermal Assessment of Platanares, Department of Copan, Honduras." In Energy and Mineral Potential of the Central American-Caribbean Region, 263–68. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79476-6_35.

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McNeil, Cameron L. "Death and Chocolate: The Significance of Cacao Offerings in Ancient Maya Tombs and Caches at Copan, Honduras." In Pre-Columbian Foodways, 293–314. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0471-3_12.

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Fash, William L., Barbara W. Fash, and Jorge Ramos. "New Approaches to Community Stewardship, Education, and Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage at Rastrojón, Copán, Honduras." In Finding Solutions for Protecting and Sharing Archaeological Heritage Resources, 135–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20255-6_10.

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Gonlin, Nancy, and Christine C. Dixon. "Classic Maya Nights at Copan, Honduras and El Cerén, El Salvador." In Archaeology of the Night: Life After Dark in the Ancient World, 45–76. University Press of Colorado, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5876/9781607326786.c003.

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Wright, Lori E. "An Isotope Study of Childhood Diet and Mobility at Copan, Honduras." In The Dead Tell Tales, 95–105. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvdjrq6v.16.

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Suzuki, Shintaro, Vera Tiesler, and T. Douglas Price. "Human Migration and Ethnic Expression in the Southeastern Borderland of Mesoamerica." In Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, 192–222. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056005.003.0008.

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This chapter discusses human migration and multiethnicity in Copan, a Maya archaeological site in modern Honduras. A broad skeletal sample from the site has been studied through basic osteology, mortuary archaeology, and archaeochemistry (stable isotope analysis). The combined results show that the ancient city had a significant number of immigrants from all over the Maya Area. There was no sex or age related distinction, nor socioeconomic exclusivity, among these immigrants. In such a multiethnic city, biocultural body modifications, like dental decorations and intentional head shaping, were indicative of their social identities, especially “Mayahood.” The dynamic changes of these biocultural attributes at spatial and chronological scales are evidence of shifting social identities at the southeastern borderland of the Maya Area.
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Maca, Allan L. "Ethnographic Analogy and the Archaeological Construction of Maya Identity at Copan, Honduras." In The Ch′orti′ Maya Area, 90–106. University Press of Florida, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813033310.003.0007.

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Mortensen, Lena. "Copan Past and Present: Maya Archaeological Tourism and the Chorti in Honduras." In The Ch′orti′ Maya Area, 246–56. University Press of Florida, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813033310.003.0018.

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McNeil, Cameron L., W. Jeffrey Hurst, and Robert J. Sharer. "The Use and Representation of Cacao During the Classic Period at Copan, Honduras." In Chocolate in Mesoamerica, 224–52. University Press of Florida, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813029535.003.0011.

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McNeil, Cameron L. "The Environmental Record of Human Populations and Migrations in the Copan Valley, Honduras." In The Ch′orti′ Maya Area, 47–59. University Press of Florida, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813033310.003.0004.

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Reports on the topic "Copan, Honduras"

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Heiken, G., D. Eppler, K. Wohletz, W. Flores, N. Ramos, and A. Ritchie. Geology of the platanares geothermal site, Departamento de Copan, Honduras, Central America. Field report. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/5509289.

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Recommendations report for the platanares geothermal site, Department of Copan, Honduras. Reporte de recomendaciones para el sitio geotermico de platanares, Departamento de Copan, Honduras. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), November 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6629422.

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