La Guerra y las armas de los mayas clásicos: puntas de lanza y flecha de aguateca y Copán

Aoyama, Kazuo

doi:10.19130/iifl.ecm.2006.28.610

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“…As presented in Tables 3 and 4, I classified the chipped stone artifacts according to their raw material combined with technological analysis (Aoyama 1999, 2009a, 2009b). The pre-Columbian obsidian exchange system in Ceibal was reconstructed by combining technological analysis and source analysis, thus identifying likely sources for the importation of raw material and finished products (Table 5).…”

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“…Using high-powered microscopy techniques, I have also conducted microwear analysis on 7,737 stone artifacts from Ceibal and other Maya sites (Aoyama 1995, 1999, 2007, 2009a, 2009b). In 1987, I conducted an intensive experimental study of use-wear on obsidian and chert in Honduras in order to establish a framework for the interpretation of Maya stone tool use (Aoyama 1989, 1999).…”

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“…The Ceibal-Petexbatun Archaeological Project has recovered a total of 111 chert points and 10 obsidian points from primary and secondary contexts (Table 14), while the Ceibal Project of Harvard University uncovered 77 chert bifacial points and 11 obsidian points from all time periods (Willey 1978:102, 124). In contrast, the greater number of chert bifacial points (n = 308) pertaining to the Late Classic period were recovered at the rapidly abandoned city of Aguateca (Aoyama 2009b:280). This large quantity of bifacial points is indicative of the escalating violence and warfare at Aguateca in the eighth and early ninth century (Aoyama 2005).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…At Tikal, green obsidian prismatic blades were present from the early Late Preclassic into the Terminal Classic period, with peak use during the Early Classic period (Moholy-Nagy 2003:28). I noted 10 Mexican obsidian artifacts (a green obsidian stemmed bifacial point, eight green obsidian prismatic blades, and a prismatic blade made of Zaragoza obsidian) among a total of 24 obsidian artifacts recovered from the Early Classic contexts at the nearby fortified center of Punta de Chimino in the nearby Petexbatun region (Aoyama 2009b:278). The scarcity of green obsidian artifacts in Ceibal would be another line of evidence for the reduction in population during the Early Classic period.…”

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Ancient Maya Economy: Lithic Production and Exchange Around Ceibal, Guatemala

Aoyama

2017

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This article discusses the results of my diachronic analysis of lithic artifacts collected around Ceibal, Guatemala, in order to elucidate one aspect of long-term changing patterns in the pre-Columbian Maya economic systems and warfare. The importation of large polyhedral obsidian cores and local production of prismatic blades began as the result of sociopolitical development in Ceibal during the early Middle Preclassic Real-Xe phase. El Chayal obsidian was heavily used during the early Middle Preclassic period, while San Martín Jilotepeque was the principal source in the late Middle Preclassic, Late Preclassic, and Terminal Preclassic periods, and El Chayal once more became the major source in Ceibal during the Classic period. There is increasing evidence of the production and use of chert and obsidian points in the central part of Ceibal during the Late and Terminal Classic periods, indicating elites' direct involvement in warfare. Although the spear or dart points were predominant weapons in Classic Maya warfare, the increase in both chert small unifacial points and obsidian prismatic blade points in Ceibal points to bow-and-arrow technology by the Terminal Classic period.

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Ancient Maya Economy: Lithic Production and Exchange Around Ceibal, Guatemala

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2017

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“…The notable absence of green obsidian artifacts and the overall scarcity of Mexican obsidian artifacts at Terminal Classic Ceibal indicate that elites may not have participated in developing long-distance obsidian exchange networks during the tenth century (e.g., Braswell 2010:137). The presence of Mexican obsidian is a sensitive chronological indicator for the Early Classic, Terminal Classic, and Early Postclassic periods in the nearby Punta de Chimino in the Petexbatun region, the southeast and central-western Petén region (Aoyama 2006, 2009b; Aoyama and Laporte 2009), western Honduras, and especially the northern Maya Lowlands (Aoyama 2001; Braswell 2003).…”

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Preclassic and Classic Maya Interregional and Long-Distance Exchange: A Diachronic Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts From Ceibal, Guatemala

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2017

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Lithic and Faunal Evidence for Craft Production Among the Middle Preclassic Maya at Ceibal, Guatemala

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Aoyama

2022

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This study examines artifact production using lithic, animal bone, and shell materials at the lowland Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala, to explore the emergence and societal role of early crafting specialists. During the Middle Preclassic period (1000–350 b.c.), ancient Maya society went through a critical transition to sedentary settlements, including the development of large-scale monumental construction endeavors for ceremonial activities, increasingly nucleated settlement patterns, and the differential control of prestigious objects. Excavations across Ceibal recovered one of the largest Middle Preclassic assemblages of lithic and faunal material to date. We examine these materials in order to understand the nature of their manufacturing processes, the association between lithic production and bone/shell processing for meat and artifact production, and compare these activities with evidence from other Middle Preclassic sites and from the later Classic period. We find that Middle Preclassic middens are often disturbed or incorporated into later construction episodes over many generations, making the identification of such activities difficult, although not impossible, to identify archaeologically. Evidence for crafting is often found near ceremonial structures where Ceibal's early elite would have been present, suggesting that they were closely involved in the production process.

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La Guerra y las armas de los mayas clásicos: puntas de lanza y flecha de aguateca y Copán

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Ancient Maya Economy: Lithic Production and Exchange Around Ceibal, Guatemala

Ancient Maya Economy: Lithic Production and Exchange Around Ceibal, Guatemala

Preclassic and Classic Maya Interregional and Long-Distance Exchange: A Diachronic Analysis of Obsidian Artifacts From Ceibal, Guatemala

Lithic and Faunal Evidence for Craft Production Among the Middle Preclassic Maya at Ceibal, Guatemala

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