Burial 61 at El Perú-Waka's Structure M13-1

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-200
Author(s):  
Olivia C. Navarro-Farr ◽  
Griselda Pérez Robles ◽  
Juan Carlos Pérez Calderón ◽  
Elsa Damaris Menéndez Bolaños ◽  
Erin E. Patterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
Late Classic

Structure M13-1 is a public monumental building in the heart of ancient El Perú-Waka’, Petén, Guatemala, and is the location of Burial 61, an entombed Late Classic (seventh-century) ruler. In this report, we discuss mortuary evidence that we believe permits identification of the interred as the historically known queen, Lady K'abel.

Environmental Degradation and the Classic Maya Collapse at Copan, Honduras (a.d. 600–1250): Evidence From Studies of Household Survival

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. Paine ◽  
AnnCorinne Freter
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Residential Group ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Copan Valley

AbstractThe Late Classic Maya abandonment of the Copan Valley, Honduras, began in the ninth century a.d. and lasted approximately 250–300 years. The relationship between local ecological setting and residential group abandonment is examined by applying event-history analysis to the known occupation spans of 140 residential mound groups, dated by obsidian hydration. Late Classic households in ecologically vulnerable sections of the Copan Valley—as measured by slope, soil type, and natural vegetation—had significantly higher risk of abandonment than households in more ecologically stable settings. Abandonment risk rises sharply in all regions at the end of the seventh century a.d. Both computerized agricultural simulations and settlement demographic reconstructions indicate that increased levels of agricultural intensification necessary to meet the subsistence needs of Copan's growing population would have led to large-scale erosion in upland areas and a significant reduction of soil fertility in all regions of the valley at that time. Mound-group abandonment patterns tend to support the hypothesis that environmental degradation played a dominant role in the collapse of the Copan polity.

A SEVENTH-CENTURY INSCRIBED MINIATURE FLASK FROM COPAN FOUND AT TAZUMAL, EL SALVADOR

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeb J. Card ◽  
Marc Zender
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Political Relationship ◽  
The Common ◽  
Copan Valley

AbstractLate Classic interaction between Copan and western El Salvador has been archaeologically recognized in prestige items, monumental influences, and the common use of Copador ceramics. An inscribed flask excavated in 1952 in the main pyramid at Tazumal, El Salvador provides historical evidence for these ties. The flask is dedicated as the property of K'ahk' Uti' Witz' K'awiil (Copan Ruler 12), a long-lived seventh-century ruler who presided over the expansion of Copan's influence far outside of the Copan valley. The flask is the only hieroglyphic text from El Salvador naming a recognizable individual or that can be dated to an absolute calendrical span, one of only a few miniature Classic Maya vessels tagged with an individual's name, and the only one naming an ajaw (lord). The vessel's text, iconography, and context brings the political relationship between Copan and western El Salvador into sharper focus.

JOHN BISHOP OF NIKIOU’S CHRONICON (SEVENTH CENTURY A.D.): AN INDISPENSABLE SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE ARAB CONQUEST OF EGYPT AND ITS AFTERMATH*

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 748-768
Author(s):  
V. Christides
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Local People ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Coptic Church

John, Bishop of Nikiou’s Chronicon is the oldest preserved work dealing with the Arab conquest of Egypt (639 A.D./H. 18–645 A.D./H. 25) and its initial aftermath. This little known author, who lived in Egypt in the seventh century, was a high official in the Coptic Church. His accurate depiction of all the relevant historical events, based mainly on his own remarkable observations, proves him to be a simple but well–balanced historian. My article focuses on three aspects of the Chronicon: (a) landholding under the early years of Arab dominion compared to the parallel information of the Greek papyri of Apollonopolis in a special appendix; (b) the attitude of the Arab conquerors of Egypt towards its population, and the reaction of the local people as perceived by John, Bishop of Nikiou; and (c) a short account on the elusive role of the Blues and Greens during the Arab conquest of Egypt as recorded by John of Nikiou.

Seventh Century Judean Historiography : The Pentateuch

Canon&Culture ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-36
Author(s):  
Marvin A. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century
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