Rural responses following collapse: insights from Monte El Santo, Oaxaca, Mexico

Meehan, Pascale

doi:10.1080/00438243.2018.1537858

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“…N141 extended their social network beyond local centers and engaged in new productive activities in attempt to increase their well-being. As local political authority weakened, households would have gained greater flexibility in how they invested their time and agricultural surplus, as well as greater opportunities to participate directly in existing trade networks (Braswell 2010; Masson and Freidel 2012; Meehan 2018). Greater quantities of obsidian have been recovered from N141 than from the majority of Late Preclassic, and all Early Classic contexts at Uci and Ucanha (Hutson 2016b; Kidder 2019).…”

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“…This article examines how rural households shaped and expressed social differentiation within Chunhuayum during the late Early Classic ( a.d. 400/500–600/630). Following practice- and agency-based approaches, I consider rural people, through their habituated and innovative actions, as integral to the production, maintenance, and transformation of social differentiation (Blackmore 2011, 2012; Canuto and Fash 2004; Hutson et al 2015; Lohse 2013; Meehan 2018; Robin 2012a, 2013; Schwarz 2013; Yaeger 2000).…”

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“…Cuando los líderes regionales del clásico temprano perdieron el apoyo popular y las poblaciones disminuyeron, la ocupación de Chunhuayum persistió a través de este proceso de descentralización regional y los pobladores participaban en relaciones sociales locales y externas complejas. Siguiendo una perspectiva basada en prácticas sociales (Bourdieu 1977, 1986, 1990), este articulo aborda la diferenciación social en Chunhuayum analizando cómo se produce, perpetúa y reestructura a través de las acciones regularizadas de los agentes rurales (por ejemplo, Blackmore 2011; Hutson et al 2015; Lohse 2013; Meehan 2018; Robin 2012a; Schwarz 2013; Yaeger 2000). Se examina la arquitectura residencial y los conjuntos de cerámica, obsidiana y concha recuperados de cinco unidades domesticas para seguir dos líneas de investigación.…”

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Rural Social Differentiation in Early Classic Chunhuayum, Yucatan, Mexico

Lamb

2022

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This article examines rural social differentiation in Chunhuayum, Yucatan, a rural village continuously occupied from approximately 800 b.c.–a.d. 1000. Focusing on the late Early Classic (a.d. 400/500–600/630), a time when other settlements of the Uci polity experienced political and population disruptions, I examine how households shaped and expressed local social differentiation, particularly wealth, occupation, and social connectivity. Residential architecture provides the most salient marker of wealth differences at Chunhuayum, while ceramic, shell, and obsidian assemblages indicate that households also varied in terms of their occupations and external social networks. Within this predominantly agrarian village, two households attempted to improve their economic and immaterial well-being through locally innovative strategies—shell crafting and group-oriented ritual orchestration. Such strategies ultimately had different outcomes both for the household and community. These points underscore the heterogeneity of the rural ancient rural Maya, and that social differentiation was actively constructed by rural people rather than a trickling-down of the normative hierarchical social order. Through habituated practice and innovative action, Chunhuayum's Early Classic residents continued participating in external networks while shaping locally meaningful relations of differences.

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Rural Social Differentiation in Early Classic Chunhuayum, Yucatan, Mexico

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2022

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“…Archaeologists have explored the regeneration, resilience, and transformation of Mesoamerican polities following the Classic-period collapse in the southern lowlands and elsewhere (Demarest at el. 2004; Graham 2004; Iannone et al 2014; Meehan 2019; Schwarz 2013). The cessation of monument building and stelae dedication, the breakdown of trade networks that redistributed highly valued exotic goods between elites, and the end of polities controlled by “holy kings” are some of the characteristics that mark the end of the Classic period (Rice et al 2004:11).…”

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“…The "transformational event" at the end of the Classic period and its impact on rural and hinterland settlements within larger polities requires more examination. Of note is Meehan's (2019) analysis of the rural reactions to the collapse at the Zapotec site of Río Viejo, Oaxaca, where she documents changes in cotton production and obsidian access.…”

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Control, Collapse, and Resilience at Río Amarillo in the Copan Valley, Honduras

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This article documents the transition from the Late Classic to Postclassic periods at Río Amarillo, a hinterland outpost of the Copan polity, and at an associated residential group, Site 5, in the Río Amarillo East Pocket of the Copan Valley. Late Classic period evidence indicates that the site of Río Amarillo operated as an administrative center for the Copan polity with the likely objective of increased agricultural production for the burgeoning population in the Copan Pocket. In the Terminal Classic period, Río Amarillo shared the fate of Copan, with evidence indicating it was burned and sacked. However, unlike the Copan Pocket, many residential groups remained occupied during the Early Postclassic. Here we focus on Site 5. An unbroken occupation from the Late Classic through to the end of the Early Postclassic period, as this site provides a window into an existence without the requirements of tribute given to their western neighbor. We hypothesize that the smaller settlement size and higher amount of rainfall in this valley pocket, as well as a richer and more diversified environment, were important factors in the survival of some of its population.

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