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Zeitlin, Robert N. "Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize:Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize." Latin American Anthropology Review 1, no. 1 (1989): 17–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlat.1989.1.1.17.

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Sanchez-Fortoul, Carmen G. "Ceramic composition diversity at Mayapan, the last Maya capital." Open Journal of Archaeometry 1, no. 1 (2013): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/arc.2013.e4.

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This study focuses on the variability of pottery fabrics from Mayapán, the Maya capital during the last pre-Hispanic period (Late Postclassic, A.D. 1200-1519). Traditionally, the materials selected by Late Postclassic potters have been considered a reflection of the carelessness of a decadent society using only what the geology of the region provided. For instance, unlike the variety of inclusions found in the earlier Terminal Classic pottery, Mayapán pottery presents a limited array of raw materials: limestone, the most common rock in the region, is almost the sole inclusion found in its pott

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Zeitlin, Robert N. "Preclassic Maya Pottery at Cuello, Belize." Latin American Anthropology Review 1, no. 1 (2008): 17–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlca.1989.1.1.17.

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Houston, Stephen D., David Stuart, and Karl A. Taube. "Folk Classification of Classic Maya Pottery." American Anthropologist 91, no. 3 (1989): 720–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1989.91.3.02a00130.

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Rice, Prudence M. "RETHINKING CLASSIC LOWLAND MAYA POTTERY CENSERS." Ancient Mesoamerica 10, no. 1 (1999): 25–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536199101020.

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Classic lowland Maya censers can be described in terms of two general categories, image (or effigy) and non-image. The function and meaning of these incensarios is approached through consideration of their embellishment, symbolism, and contexts of use and recovery. It is suggested that in Peten and some adjacent areas, Classic image censers were part of the paraphernalia of divine kingship, associated with termination rituals and a royal funerary cult. Non-image and particularly spiked censers were more associated with birth/renewal, earth, rain, and calendrical rituals involving fire drilling

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Straight, Kirk Damon. "A HOUSEFUL OF POTS: APPLYING ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA TO ESTIMATE ANNUAL CERAMIC VESSEL CONSUMPTION RATES OF CLASSIC MAYA HOUSEHOLDS." Ancient Mesoamerica 28, no. 1 (2017): 95–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536116000407.

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AbstractThis article reviews data from the modern highland Maya area in order to develop a model of vessel discard frequencies applicable to Classic Maya contexts. Estimating the number of pots consumed by ancient households is crucial to reconstructing the organization of ceramic production and exchange in antiquity. The recent publication ofin situhousehold assemblages from the Classic Maya center of Aguateca facilitates an analysis of household pottery use during the Late Classic period. Vessel class use-lives derived from ethnoarchaeological studies are applied to the Aguateca assemblages

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Reents-Budet, Dorie. "Elite Maya Pottery and Artisans as Social Indicators." Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 8, no. 1 (2008): 71–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ap3a.1998.8.1.71.

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Rice, Prudence M. "Late Classic Maya Pottery Production: Review and Synthesis." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 16, no. 2 (2009): 117–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-009-9063-2.

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Lohse, Jon C. "Archaic Origins of the Lowland Maya." Latin American Antiquity 21, no. 3 (2010): 312–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.21.3.312.

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The earliest Lowland Maya are commonly recognized by permanent architecture and the appearance of pottery. However, when other lines of evidence are considered, strong continuities with late Archaic populations can be seen. Reconciling these views relies on more than simply gathering more data. It is also necessary to consider the effect of decades of scholarship that defines the precolumbian Maya as “civilization” rather than considering the historical contexts of important transitions, such as the one that culminated with sedentism, the adoption of new technologies, and participation in long

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Stroth, Luke R., Mario R. Borrero, and Geoffrey E. Braswell. "CLASSIC PERIOD CERAMICS OF NIM LI PUNIT: CHANGES IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AT A SOUTHERN BELIZE POLITICAL CAPITAL." Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 18 (2023): 197–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.62064/rrba.18.17.

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Pottery recovered from 2012 to 2019 at Nim li Punit, Toledo District, demonstrates that it was occupied from AD 150/250 to AD 830+. We identify long-term changes in the kinds of material produced, used, and discarded over the 600- to 700-year occupation of the site. During the last century of the Classic period, Nim li Punit witnessed a decline in the diversity of ceramic practice. This could reflect a shift in feasting behavior, perhaps due to the political and demographic instability experienced throughout Maya lowlands during the eighth century. Alternatively, this could be the result of ne

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M. del Rosario Domínguez, C., V. Rafael Burgos, C. Yoly Palomo, C. Eric Reyes, and R. Efraín Rubio. "Characterization of Ceramics of the Maya Protoclassic Period in Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico." MRS Proceedings 1618 (2014): 73–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/opl.2014.456.

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ABSTRACTAs a result of archaeological investigations carried out in the pre-Hispanic city of Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico a large number of fragments of pottery vessels were recovered from the period known as maya protoclassic. The most important of this collection was its similarity to ceramic style representative recognized as Holmul, whose production has been identified mostly in the region of the Central Maya Lowlands. This style includes Ixcanrio Orange Polychrome ceramic type as diagnostic type more easily distinguished by its orange slip and tetrapods supports. Izamal, is the only place in t

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Arnold, Dean E. "MAYA BLUE AND PALYGORSKITE: A second possible pre-Columbian source." Ancient Mesoamerica 16, no. 1 (2005): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536105050078.

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Maya Blue is an unusual blue pigment used on pottery, sculpture, and murals from the Preclassic to the Colonial period. Until the late 1960s, its composition was unknown, but chemists working in Spain, Belgium, Mexico, and the United States identified Maya Blue as a combination of indigo and the unusual clay mineral palygorskite (also called attapulgite). A source of palygorskite in the Maya area was unknown for years; then ethnoarchaeological research in the mid-1960s demonstrated that the contemporary Maya recognized the unique physical properties of palygorskite and used it as an additive f

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Kosakowsky, Laura J., and Duncan C. Pring. "The Ceramics of Cuello, Belize." Ancient Mesoamerica 9, no. 1 (1998): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095653610000184x.

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AbstractThe site of Cuello in northern Belize provides a long ceramic sequence from the early Middle Preclassic, ca. 1200 b.c., to the Late Preclassic, sometime in the fourth century a.d. Excavations begun at Cuello in 1975 were completed in 1993. The initial controversy concerning the chronological placement of the earliest pottery of the Swasey and Bladen complexes is challenged by examining the 1992 and 1993 excavated material in a “blind analysis,” without benefit of stratigraphic information. The results demonstrate conclusively the stratigraphie priority of Swasey ceramics below Bladen,

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Little, N. C., L. J. Kosakowsky, R. J. Speakman, M. D. Glascock, and J. C. Lohse. "Characterization of Maya pottery by INAA and ICP-MS." Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 262, no. 1 (2004): 103–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/b:jrnc.0000040860.14672.89.

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Chávez-Cruz, Susana, Miriam J. Gallegos-Gómora, Ricardo Armijo-Torres, Mario A. Guzmán-Cruz, Richart Falconi-Calderón, and Manuel Acosta-Alejandro. "Archaeometric study of Maya pottery from Comalcalco, Tabasco, Mexico." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 54 (April 2024): 104458. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104458.

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Becker, Marshall Joseph. "A CLASSIC-PERIODBARRIOPRODUCING FINE POLYCHROME CERAMICS AT TIKAL, GUATEMALA: Notes on ancient Maya firing technology." Ancient Mesoamerica 14, no. 1 (2003): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536103141053.

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Significant indirect evidence suggests that one of the Classic-period residential groups at Tikal was the residence of a family of potters who produced high-quality painted wares. Delineation of the borders of residential Group 4H-1 at Tikal led me to postulate that thebajowas a major resource zone for ceramic manufacturing rather than a spatially limiting feature. This family of upscale ceramic producers used the adjacentbajoas a source of clay and fuel for firing pottery. The configuration of other groups near Group 4H-1 suggests not only that the people occupying the several groups on this

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Castellanos, Jeanette E., and Antonia E. Foias. "The Earliest Maya Farmers of Peten: New Evidence from Buenavista-Nuevo San José, Central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala." Journal of Anthropology 2017 (February 15, 2017): 1–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8109137.

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The origins and cultural affiliations of the first sedentary agricultural and pottery-producing communities in the southern Maya lowlands remain hotly debated. Here, we describe the discovery of a new early farming settlement at the small site of Buenavista-Nuevo San José on Lake Peten Itza in northern Guatemala. Evidence for a pre-Mamom occupation (1000–700 BC) at this site was found in the deepest fill layers overlying bedrock, including pottery diagnostic of this time period and the remains of a post-in-bedrock dwelling. Because the evidence for this early settlement is from secondary conte

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Parker, Evan, George J. Bey, Jiyan Gu, Timothy Ward, and Tomás Gallareta Negrón. "MIDDLE PRECLASSIC POTTERY PRODUCTION AND EXCHANGE IN THE NORTHERN MAYA LOWLANDS: AN ICP-MS ANALYSIS." Ancient Mesoamerica 33, no. 3 (2022): 604–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536121000286.

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AbstractEvidence of complex and widespread occupations during the Middle Preclassic (1000–350 b.c.) have been identified throughout the Northern Maya Lowlands and are associated with both Mamom and pre-Mamom ceramics. Beyond typological information based on the visual examination of paste, slip, and surface treatment, archaeologists know little about the technology or economics of pottery production and exchange of this period. In this study, we analyze Middle Preclassic ceramics from four sites in northwest Yucatan, using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)

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Deal, Michael. "Household pottery disposal in the Maya highlands: An ethnoarchaeological interpretation." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 4, no. 4 (1985): 243–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0278-4165(85)90008-x.

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Walker, Debra S., Kathyrn Reese-Taylor, Ivan Šprajc, Nicholas P. Dunning, and Mary Jane Acuña. "Pre-Mamom Pottery Producers in the Heart of the Yucatan Peninsula." Estudios de Cultura Maya 63 (April 25, 2024): 11–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ecm.63.2024/00171s0xw31.

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Recent research in the Maya Lowlands has revealed substantial new evidence for the first pottery producers at about 1000-600 bc, during the early Middle Preclassic period. This comparatively late adoption is a special case in Mesoamerica, where pottery appeared elsewhere up to a millennium earlier. Although archaic lifeways had long been established in the region, and pottery technology was likely known to some archaic communities, these new data reveal the complex set of circumstances that prompted the shift to ceramic production across the Yucatan Peninsula, Peten, and Belize. This article r

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Jordan, Jillian M., and Keith M. Prufer. "IDENTIFYING DOMESTIC CERAMIC PRODUCTION IN THE MAYA LOWLANDS: A CASE STUDY FROM UXBENKA, BELIZE." Latin American Antiquity 28, no. 1 (2017): 66–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2016.3.

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Utilitarian ceramic vessels form the bulk of artifact assemblages in the Maya Lowlands, but little is known about their production beyond the likelihood that they were made in a domestic context without elite involvement. Characterizing the production and distribution of these vessels is vital to understanding ancient Maya economic systems; nevertheless, this is a difficult task in the absence of primary production locales. We use spatial data, use-wear analyses on stone and ceramic tools, and analyses of finished products to identify households involved in ceramic production at three settleme

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McAnany, Patricia A., and Sandra L. López Varela. "RE-CREATING THE FORMATIVE MAYA VILLAGE OF K'AXOB." Ancient Mesoamerica 10, no. 1 (1999): 147–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536199101093.

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Occupation of the lowlands by groups of Mayan-language speakers during the Archaic and Formative periods is poorly understood, partly because of a lack of sufficient data. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that early deposits often are discovered at the base of deep test excavations and, as such, yield a “window” to the past that is limited in terms of understanding settlement colonization, growth, and differentiation. The southern portion of the site of K'axob, which is located in northern Belize, contains substantial Middle and Late Formative period construction that is relatively acce

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LeCount, Lisa J. "Polychrome Pottery and Political Strategies in Late and Terminal Classic Lowland Maya Society." Latin American Antiquity 10, no. 3 (1999): 239–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/972029.

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The analysis of decorated pottery across house mounds at the lowland Maya site of Xunantunich in Belize investigates the complex relationships between wealth, social status, and political strategies in state-level societies. Rather than using the distribution of decorated pottery as an indicator of social status, this study treats it as an independent variable and illustrates how prestige goods circulated as political currency to further political ambitions. Two social strata and the two ranks within each stratum are defined by architectural complexity and intersite location of house mounds at

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Masson, Marilyn A., and Robert M. Rosenswig. "Production Characteristics of Postclassic Maya Pottery from Caye Coco, Northern Belize." Latin American Antiquity 16, no. 4 (2005): 355–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/30042505.

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AbstractThis analysis of production variability of Postclassic Maya pottery from consumer contexts at Caye Coco implies that household pottery making varied and that products destined for different social and functional use contexts were made with differing degrees of standardization. New chronological and typological information from the Terminal Classic and Early Postclassic Periods at Caye Coco provide data important to the study of long-term interregional affiliations leading up to the Late Postclassic. Our attribute analysis of major type and form classes of Postclassic Period vessels qua

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Stuart, David. "The Río Azul cacao pot: epigraphic observations on the function of a Maya ceramic vessel." Antiquity 62, no. 234 (1988): 153–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00073634.

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Despite decades of extensive study of ancient Maya ceramics, a few basic questions still vex the archaeologist: What were the actual uses of the distinct types of Maya vessels? How can we determine the precise function of some pottery forms? How can we understand the classification the Maya themselves had for their pots? This brief note, using a recently-discovered vessel from Río Azul, Guatemala, as an illustration, will show that such questions can be addressed using combined data from different analytical approaches. Here I also wish to emphasize the notion that some of the most important s

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de Smet, Peter A. G. M., and Nicholas M. Hellmuth. "A multidisciplinary approach to ritual enema scenes on ancient Maya pottery." Journal of Ethnopharmacology 16, no. 2-3 (1986): 213–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-8741(86)90091-7.

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Brady, James E., Joseph W. Ball, Ronald L. Bishop, Duncan C. Pring, Norman Hammond, and Rupert A. Housley. "The Lowland Maya “Protoclassic”." Ancient Mesoamerica 9, no. 1 (1998): 17–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100001826.

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AbstractThe term “Protoclassic,” employed regularly but inexplicitly in the literature of lowland Maya archaeology, has become increasingly nebulous and ambiguous in both meaning and usage. This paper reviews the history and use of the term and presents a formal redefinition of the Protoclassic as a ceramic stage based explicitly and exclusively on ceramic criteria. Some suggestions regarding future use of the term also are offered. The paper further addresses and resolves a number of persisting questions regarding Protoclassic orange wares, including problems concerning the actual existence o

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Ferrier, Jonathan, Todd Pesek, Nicholas Zinck, et al. "A Classic Maya Mystery of a Medicinal Plant and Maya Hieroglyphs." Heritage 3, no. 2 (2020): 275–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage3020016.

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The Maya employed the k’an |K’AN| glyph in Late Classic (~750 CE) hieroglyphs on murals and polychrome pottery as an adjective meaning precious, yellow. On cacao drinking vessels, the k’an glyph was suggested as a descriptor for a flavoring ingredient, allspice, Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr. (Myrtaceae). However, our previous consensus ethnobotanical fieldwork with Q’eqchi’ Maya healers of Belize revealed another candidate among antidiabetic plants, Tynanthus guatemalensis Donn. Sm. (Bignoniaceae), which was the healers’ top selection for treatment of diabetes and an exceptionally active extract i

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Aimers, James J., and Jaime J. Awe. "THE LONG GOODBYE: PROBLEMATIC POTTERY AND PILGRIMAGE AT CAHAL PECH, BELIZE." Ancient Mesoamerica 31, no. 1 (2020): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536119000191.

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ABSTRACTInvestigations in the site core of Cahal Pech have recovered a range of data reflecting Terminal Classic Maya activity at this Belize Valley site. The materials, which were recovered in a tomb, a burial, and in epicentral plaza deposits, include a diverse assemblage of cultural remains including whole and partial vessels, projectile points, obsidian blade fragments, deer antlers, figurines, pottery flutes, spindle whorls, and jade beads. Similar deposits at other Maya sites in western Belize have been interpreted as evidence for de facto refuse or rapid abandonment. Contextual analyses

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Coffey, K. T., A. K. Schmitt, A. Ford, F. J. Spera, C. Christensen, and J. Garrison. "Volcanic ash provenance from zircon dust with an application to Maya pottery." Geology 42, no. 7 (2014): 595–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g35376.1.

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Callaghan, Michael G. "“Paint it black”: Wealth‐in‐people and Early Classic Maya blackware pottery." Economic Anthropology 7, no. 2 (2020): 228–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12180.

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Johnson, Scott A. J. "THE ROOTS OF SOTUTA: DZITAS SLATE AS A YUCATECAN TRADITION." Ancient Mesoamerica 26, no. 1 (2015): 113–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095653611500005x.

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AbstractThe Sotuta pottery complex has been used in the archaeology of the northern Maya lowlands to identify the Terminal Classic period and cultural association with Chichen Itza. The Sotuta complex, however, is made up of many pottery types, the majority of which are inappropriate markers of elite sociopolitical history. It is argued here that Sotuta-complex slate wares developed out of previous local slate wares regardless of the elite sociopolitical changes taking place with the arrival of the Itza. The wares produced and distributed by commoners were independent of elites and have been a

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Rice, Prudence M., and Katherine E. South. "REVISITING MONKEYS ON POTS: A CONTEXTUAL CONSIDERATION OF PRIMATE IMAGERY ON CLASSIC LOWLAND MAYA POTTERY." Ancient Mesoamerica 26, no. 2 (2015): 275–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536115000206.

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AbstractFour species of monkeys may have lived in the Maya region in pre-Columbian times: two howler monkey species, the spider monkey, and possibly the capuchin. Simians also played an important role in Maya creation myth and cosmology, and are frequently represented on Maya pottery and in glyphic texts. Scholars disagree, however, on which monkeys are depicted. Here we provide an analysis of 142 monkey images on 97 pots, focusing especially on Classic-period lowland polychromes. Multiple physical characteristics of the primates are considered, along with cultural traits, to provide appropria

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Valdez, Fred, Lauren A. Sullivan, Palma J. Buttles, and Luisa Aebersold. "THE ORIGINS AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE EARLY MAYA FROM COLHA AND NORTHERN BELIZE." Ancient Mesoamerica 32, no. 3 (2021): 502–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536121000468.

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AbstractInvestigations concerning the earliest Maya have been of archaeological interest for many decades. Northern Belize serves as a valuable region for researching and understanding early Maya developments. In particular, the ancient Maya site of Colha in northern Belize is a focal point of some early developments beginning in the Archaic period. Select resources in the region, especially in the chert-bearing zone, clearly had been of great interest and attraction to populations extending back into Paleoindian and Archaic times, as well as the Maya period for Colha and other sites near the

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Jabłońska, Joanna. "WHAT DO CERAMICS TELL US ABOUT THE CONTACTS BETWEEN THE MAYA AND TEOTIHUACAN? THE MEANING AND SOCIAL CONTEXT OF TEOTIHUACAN-LIKE CERAMICS IN THE MAYA AREA AND MAYA-LIKE CERAMICS AT TEOTIHUACAN IN THE EARLY CLASSIC PERIOD." Contributions in New World Archaeology 13 (December 31, 2019): 67–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33547/cnwa.13.03.

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A long-lived debate within Early Classic Mesoamerican studies concerns the nature of the social, cultural and political interaction between the city of Teotihuacan and the Maya area. Considerable evidence of these contacts is known from epigraphy, iconography and architecture, but we know less from the artefacts, especially ceramics, that point to these relationships. Typical Teotihuacan ceramic forms – like cylinder tripods, Thin Orange pottery, candeleros, cream pitchers and floreros appear in many Maya sites from several regions: the Central Zone, the South-eastern Zone, the Belize Zone, th

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Reents-Budet, Dorie, Ronald L. Bishop, Jennifer T. Taschek, and Joseph W. Ball. "OUT OF THE PALACE DUMPS." Ancient Mesoamerica 11, no. 1 (2000): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100111083.

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An interdisciplinary approach to Late Classic Maya polychrome-painted ceramics from Buenavista del Cayo and Cahal Pech, Belize allows for preliminary observations relevant to a better understanding of elite pottery production and use in the western Belize Valley. The combination of typological and contextual data from archaeological investigations of ceramics along with art-historical stylistic analyses and ceramic-paste chemical-composition data identifies ordinary and special-purpose vessels excavated from palace-midden contexts as having been created in the same elite-oriented or “palace” w

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Foias, Antonia E., and Ronald L. Bishop. "Changing Ceramic Production and Exchange in the Petexbatun Region, Guatemala: Reconsidering the Classic Maya Collapse." Ancient Mesoamerica 8, no. 2 (1997): 275–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100001735.

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AbstractThe typological, modal, and chemical analyses of the pottery from the Petexbatun region of southwestern Peten, Guatemala, are used to establish a regional ceramic chronology and to assess three theories used to explain the Classic Maya collapse of the ninth and tenth centuries a.d. The three explanations are based on: (1) foreign invasion; (2) commercialization; and (3) internal warfare. Each of these theories suggests different changes in the regional ceramic-production and -exchange systems of the Petexbatun. Shifts in the ceramic production system are monitored using a standardizati

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Arnold, Dean E., Hector Neff, Michael D. Glascock, and Robert J. Speakman. "Sourcing the Palygorskite Used in Maya Blue: A Pilot Study Comparing the Results of INAA and LA-ICP-MS." Latin American Antiquity 18, no. 1 (2007): 44–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25063085.

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Maya Blue is an unusual blue pigment consisting of a clay-organic complex of indigo and the unusual clay mineral palygorskite (also called attapulgite). Used on pottery, sculpture, and murals from the Preclassic to Late Colonial periods largely in Mesoamerica, blue was the color of sacrifice and ritual. Did the palygorskite used to make Maya Blue come from a restricted source in Yucatán like Shepard, Arnold, Arnold and Bohor believed, or from widespread sources like Littmann argued? This report presents the results of a pilot study comparing INAA and LA-ICP-MS analysis of 33 palygorskite sampl

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Bey, George J., Tara M. Bond, William M. Ringle, Craig A. Hanson, Charles W. Houck, and Carlos Peraza Lope. "The Ceramic Chronology of Ek Balam, Yucatan, Mexico." Ancient Mesoamerica 9, no. 1 (1998): 101–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100001887.

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AbstractSince 1984, the Ek Balam Project has been investigating the organization and developmental history of a large Maya polity in the northeastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula. The survey included both urban Ek Balam, the largest regional center during the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900), covering a minimum of 12 km2, and its rural hinterland. One result of this project has been the construction of a preliminary ceramic history of the region, the subject of this report. Evidence supports a sequence of occupations extending from the Middle Preclassic through the Hispanic period (600 b.c.

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Ek, Jerald D. "Pottery and Politics: Contextualizing the Classic to Postclassic Transition in Champotón, Campeche." Latin American Antiquity 27, no. 4 (2016): 527–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.27.4.527.

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The past decades have witnessed major advancements in our understanding of Classic Maya political history, particularly geopolitical dynamics centered on hegemonic states. Yet there has been only halting progress toward historically based archaeological research focusing on the political, social, and economic impacts of political domination and subordination. To address this deficiency, I examine changes in settlement patterns and ceramic sphere affiliation in the Río Champotón drainage within broader historical and geopolitical developments. In this region, the end of the Classic period is ch

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Halperin, Christina T., and Antonia E. Foias. "Pottery politics: Late Classic Maya palace production at Motul de San José, Petén, Guatemala." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29, no. 3 (2010): 392–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2010.06.001.

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Doyle, James A. ":Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya." Journal of Anthropological Research 79, no. 4 (2023): 538–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/727084.

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Callaghan, Michael G. "POLITICS THROUGH POTTERY: A VIEW OF THE PRECLASSIC-CLASSIC TRANSITION FROM BUILDING B, GROUP II, HOLMUL, GUATEMALA." Ancient Mesoamerica 24, no. 2 (2013): 307–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536113000187.

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AbstractBuilding B of Group II at Holmul, Guatemala, is well known in Maya archaeology for its unique series of superimposed tombs, some of which contain rare large deposits of ceramic material dating to the Terminal Preclassic period (a.d.1–250). However, the building also contains large deposits of early facet Early Classic (a.d.250–400) material, as well as the remains of a potential title holding elite. This article presents the current ceramic sequence for the Holmul region and a re-evaluation of the ceramic material from all rooms in Building B Group II in light of new discoveries at sit

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López Varela, Sandra L., Annelou van Gijn, and Loe Jacobs. "De-mystifying Pottery Production in the Maya Lowlands: Detection of Traces of Use-Wear on Pottery Sherds through Microscopic Analysis and Experimental Replication." Journal of Archaeological Science 29, no. 10 (2002): 1133–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jasc.2002.0760.

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Onchoke, Kefa K., Pressley S. Nicholson, Josephine Taylor, Robert R. Friedfeld, and Leslie G. Cecil. "Structural and compositional data of maya pottery samples from Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala: Central America." Data in Brief 35 (April 2021): 106886. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.106886.

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Halperin, Christina T., and Ronald L. Bishop. "Chemical analysis of Late Classic Maya polychrome pottery paints and pastes from Central Petén, Guatemala." Journal of Archaeological Science 69 (May 2016): 118–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.04.007.

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Martin, Geoffrey T., Maarten J. Raven, Barbara Greene Aston, and Jacobus Van Dijk. "The Tomb of Maya and Meryt: Preliminary Report on the Saqqâra Excavations, 1987–8." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 74, no. 1 (1988): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030751338807400102.

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During two seasons of work the EES-Leiden expedition excavated the tomb of Maya and Meryt. It is similar to the neighbouring tomb of Horemheb, except that the outer court is not furnished with a complete peristyle. The reveals of the pylon are decorated with reliefs to a height of 3.33 m, including scenes with Maya adoring Osiris, offering bearers, and an autobiographical text. The main courtyard appears to be unfinished. More reliefs were found in the inner court and on the reveals of the entrances to the cult chapel and flanking chapels. Some of these were recorded by Lepsius during his 1843

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Anderson, Patricia K. "Yula, Yucatan, Mexico." Ancient Mesoamerica 9, no. 1 (1998): 151–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100001917.

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AbstractA major impediment to understanding the Terminal Classic to Early Postclassic transition in northern Yucatan has been the lack of a reliable ceramic chronology defined from stratigraphic contexts at the site of Chichen Itza. The temporal relationship of Cehpech and Soluta ceramics is central to resolving the issue of the correct chronological placement of Chichen Itza. The results of stratigraphic excavations at Yula, a small site 5 km south of Chichen Itza, provide the strongest evidence to date that Cehpech and Sotuta ceramics were contemporaneous. Statistical analysis of pottery com

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Onchoke, Kefa K., Pressley S. Nicholson, Leslie G. Cecil, Robert B. Friedfeld, Josephine Taylor, and Wayne P. Weatherford. "Comprehensive structural and compositional investigation of Maya pottery sherds from Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, Central America." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 36 (April 2021): 102767. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102767.

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McKillop, Heather. "Ancient Maya Trading Ports and the Integration of Long-Distance and Regional Economies: Wild Cane Cay in South-Coastal Belize." Ancient Mesoamerica 7, no. 1 (1996): 49–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536100001280.

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AbstractThe importance of Maya sea trade was the sea's integrating role as provider of ritual and subsistence resources and ritual symbolism in the Maya economy. Coastal as opposed to inland transportation of obsidian and other exotics was enhanced because of coastal–inland exchange within the southern Maya lowlands. Results are presented on fieldwork conducted to investigate Maya sea trade by the South Coastal Archaeology in Belize (SCAB) project in the Port Honduras area of south-coastal Belize between Punta Gorda and Punta Negra. The research focused on identifying features characteristic o

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