The archaeology of Copán, Honduras

Webster, David

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“…This archeological site represents one of the most spectacular achievements of the Classic Maya period (AD 420–820), involving a number of architectural and sculptural monuments constructed and extensively carved using a local volcanic tuff stone, and decorated with lime plaster ( Fash, 1991 ). It is composed of complex ruins with several secondary complexes surrounding them, including the well-known Hieroglyphic Stairway, displaying the longest known Classic Maya inscription ( Fash et al, 1992 ; Webster, 1999 ). The remains are not only endangered by physico-chemical and biological deteriorating agents, but also by the continued erosive action of the Copan river, current land use, and several restoration/conservation interventions (performed during the 20th century) involving the use of non-compatible materials such as Portland cement ( Doehne et al, 2005 ).…”

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Bacterial Diversity Evolution in Maya Plaster and Stone Following a Bio-Conservation Treatment

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Bacterial Diversity Evolution in Maya Plaster and Stone Following a Bio-Conservation Treatment

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“…These tourism products reflect the dominant research trends at Copán, which have typically focused on the site's social and political ties to the rest of the Maya world (e.g. Baudez 1983;Bell et al 2004;Webster 1999;Webster et al 2000). 8 However, they also inadvertently undermine the Honduran state's effort to claim Copán entirely as its own and to redirect energy from the Mundo Maya inward towards other Honduran destinations.…”

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Working Borders: The Contexts of Copán Archaeology

Mortensen

2007

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________________________________________________________________The work of archaeologists and the knowledge they produce both help create, and are conditioned by, a variety of kinds of borders, including political, academic, and cultural. In this article I review a series of borders that shape and determine the social conditions in which archaeology at the well-known site of Copán in western Honduras takes place and takes on meaning. I argue that the histories of these borders, their construction, and their crossings reveal structural tensions in the overlapping registers of academia, public history and popular discourse, in which archaeological knowledge circulates. These histories must be consciously interrogated in order to be negotiated. I suggest that by becoming fluent in the cultural conversations ongoing in a place, archaeologists are best able to begin productive collaborations and make informed choices about how they participate in the border-making processes of their work. ________________________________________________________________Resumen: Fronteras sin delimitar: los contextos de la arqueología Copan: El trabajo de los arqueó logos y el conocimiento que ellos/ellas producen puede ayudar a crear y al mismo tiempo estar condicionado por una variedad de límites que incluyen lo político, lo académico y lo cultural. En este artículo reviso una serie de fronteras que forman y determinan las condiciones sociales en las cuales la arqueología tiene lugar y significado en un sitio conocido de Copan en Honduras occidental. Yo argumento que las historias de estas fronteras, su construcció n y sus intersecciones revelan tensiones estructurales en los saberes que coexisten en la academia, historia pú blica y discurso popular por los cuales el conocimiento de la arqueología circula. Estas historias deben ser cuestionadas conscientemente de manera que puedan ser negociadas. Yo sugiero que los arqueó logos deben estar al tanto de los conocimientos culturales sobre un sitio para tener la capacidad de producir en cooperació n y tomar decisiones informadas en el trabajo del proceso de la construcció n de las fronteras. ________________________________________________________________Résumé: Le travail des archéologues et les connaissances qu'ils produisent aident à créer et conditionne une variété de frontières, dont des frontières économiques, académiques et culturelles. Dans cet article, une série de frontières qui façonnent et déterminent les conditions sociales dans lesquelles les fouilles archéologiques se déroulent dans la fameuse cité de Copán dans l'ouest du Honduras et la signification que cela acquiert. Je propose que les histoires de frontières, leur construction et leur traversée, révèlent des tensions dans la superposition des registres d'académie, d'histoire publique et de discours populaires dans lesquelles circulent les connaissances archéologiques. Afin de les aborder, ces histoires doivent être consciencieusement questionnées. Je suggère qu'en se familiarisant avec le discourt culturel d'un endroit...

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“…A number of review articles have appeared on the ancient Maya (Andrews, 1993;Fash, 1994;Houston, 2000;Lucero, 1999;Marcus, 1995Marcus, , 2003Webster, 1999Webster, , 2000. Other review articles on Mesoamerica include several on the Olmec (Clark, 1997a;Flannery and Marcus, 2000;Grove, 1997) and articles on Teotihuacan (Cowgill, 1997), Aztec archaeology (Hodge, 1998), and West Mexico (Pollard, 1997).…”

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New World States and Empires: Economic and Social Organization

Smith

Schreiber

2005

J Archaeol Res

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We take a critical perspective in discussing recent publications on the archaeological study of the ancient state-level societies of Latin America. For some topics, such as intensive agriculture and exchange, data are far ahead of theory, whereas for others (e.g., gender and ethnicity), theory has outstripped data. Craft production, a topic that has achieved a good balance of data and theory, is one of the success stories of recent Latin American archaeology. After a discussion of sources of data, we review these and other topics (e.g., consumption patterns, household studies, social organization) in terms of both data and theory. In a second review article, we cover the topics of politics, religion, urbanism, and the processes of change.

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The archaeology of Copán, Honduras

Cited by 33 publications

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Bacterial Diversity Evolution in Maya Plaster and Stone Following a Bio-Conservation Treatment

Bacterial Diversity Evolution in Maya Plaster and Stone Following a Bio-Conservation Treatment

Working Borders: The Contexts of Copán Archaeology

New World States and Empires: Economic and Social Organization

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