“…The burial of caches in household spaces was a common activity in the Americas (Barber et al 2013; Bauer 2005; Becker 1992; Coe,1959; Harrison-Buck 2004), and examples from Noh K'uh reveal how residential ceremonial activities sustained distinct and influential households by commemorating domestic spaces. On their own, rituals of household renewal are ubiquitous across time and space in the Maya region, but when contextualized with previous research on extended household design (Juarez 2018), large domestic construction programs (Juarez 2021), and broader monumental programs dedicated to cosmological practices (Juarez 2022), domestic ceremonies reveal a social pattern typical of corporate-leaning societies. The complexity and scale of Noh K'uh's ceremonial practices may indicate that multiple households played a guiding role in organizing the broader community, which would have divided power and control across the populace residents, as is common in communities with corporate forms of social organization (Beekman 2008; Blanton et al 1996).…”