The Northeast Petén Revisited

Rice, Don S.; Rice, Prudence M.

doi:10.2307/279858

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“…Because this set of provenienced obsidians represents an unusually long temporal span, it is useful to discuss in more detail the changing patterns in obsidian procurement through time. Changes in obsidian availability and use with respect to socioeconomic and geographical variables in the lakes district are explored elsewhere (P. Rice 1984).…”

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“…Although most of the artifacts are prismatic bladelets or bladelet fragments, a very small number of cores, flakes, and projectile points were also recovered. Provenience analysis of a sample of these obsidians was undertaken in order to investigate patterns of access to obsidian in rural/domestic contexts in Peten, as part of broader studies of lithic artifact production and use in the lakes area (Aldenderfer 1982(Aldenderfer , 1984; P. Rice 1984).…”

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Provenience Analysis of Obsidians from the Central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala

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A set of 296 obsidian artifacts from the lakes area of the Department of Peten, Guatemala, has been provenienced by X-ray fluorescence and neutron activation analysis. The obsidians come from socioeconomic contexts (primarily rural/domestic) and time periods—from the Middle Preclassic period, ca. 800 B.C., up to the time of Spanish contact, A.D. 1525—that have been poorly represented in previous Lowland provenience studies. Thus they provide new data on the acquisition and distribution of this important non-local commodity in the Maya Lowlands.

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Provenience Analysis of Obsidians from the Central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala

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“…At least two and as many as seven lineages have been identified in this area to date (Hageman and Lohse 2003;Hageman and Rich 2001). If conditions of resource scarcity due to environmental degradation (e.g., Rice and Rice 1980), weak or inconsistent political centralization (Ball and Taschek 1991;Fox and Cook 1996), and increasing population density (Santley 1990) are widely recognized as being present in the Late Classic and earlier periods, then lineages may have emerged or become more prominent in similar areas in other parts of the Maya Lowlands.…”

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The Lineage Model and Archaeological Data in Late Classic Northwestern Belize

Hageman

2004

Ancient Mesoam

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Central topics of anthropological study from the 1940s through the 1970s, kinship and lineage became largely discredited during the 1980s. Recent scholarship, however, has indicated that kinship and lineage, when considered as the products of social activity, can make important contributions to studies of living and past populations. This paper explores lineage as a model of social organization distinguished by specific activities practiced by members of Late Classic Maya social groups. This model is derived from cross-cultural literature on lineages, but practices associated with lineage organization are historically and culturally specific. A suite of archaeological correlates, based on practices endemic to the Late Classic Maya, is evaluated against a test case from northwestern Belize. The implications of a landscape populated by lineages during the Classic period argue that archaeological investigations of hinterland areas are an important complement to more traditional studies focused on nucleated site centers.

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“…This close relationship in assemblages of both periods has led some scholars to refer to "Terminal Classic/Early Postclassic" components, a term which heavily implies postcollapse technostylistic and ethnic continuities (A. Chase, 1979;Rice and Rice, 1980;P. Rice, 1986:255;Graham, 1985;Pendergast, 1986:233-234).…”

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Understanding the stratigraphic context of the maya postclassic in belize

Masson

1995

Geoarchaeology

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The Maya Postclassic (A. D. 900–1500) is a complex and poorly understood period of history which represents a conspicuous gap in the understanding of processes of social change in lowland Mesoamerica. Difficulties in interpreting this period are directly related to the stratigraphic context of Postclassic deposits such as those described in this examination of the site of Laguna de On, northern Belize. Belize Postclassic settlement has been heavily underestimated due to difficulties in detecting remains from this period in disturbed surface deposits. A lack of priority placed on Postclassic research in the southern Maya lowlands has also contributed to the relatively low number of large scale projects and refined descriptions of Postclassic remains that would enable regional synthetic reconstruction. Given the combined effect of problematic stratigraphy and limited professional attention, it is not surprising that the southern Maya lowlands are generally thought to have been drastically depopulated at the time of the collapse of Maya “civilization” around A.D. 900. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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The Northeast Petén Revisited

Cited by 27 publications

References 22 publications

Provenience Analysis of Obsidians from the Central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala

Provenience Analysis of Obsidians from the Central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala

The Lineage Model and Archaeological Data in Late Classic Northwestern Belize

Understanding the stratigraphic context of the maya postclassic in belize

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