Lowland Maya radiocarbon dates and the classic Maya collapse

Nature ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 277 (5694) ◽  
pp. 269-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Sidrys ◽  
Rainer Berger
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Maya Collapse ◽  
Lowland Maya

scholarly journals Lowland Maya radiocarbon dates and the classic Maya collapse

Nature ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 281 (5730) ◽  
pp. 407-407
Author(s):  
I. STERNS ◽  
C. LORIA ◽  
R. GARBER
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Maya Collapse ◽  
Lowland Maya

scholarly journals Lowland Maya radiocarbon dates and the classic Maya collapse (reply)

Nature ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 281 (5730) ◽  
pp. 407-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAYMOND SIDRYS ◽  
RAINER BERGER
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Maya Collapse ◽  
Lowland Maya

The Classic Maya Collapse: Testing Class Conflict Hypotheses

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Hamblin ◽  
Brian L. Pitcher
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
Testing Class ◽  
Lowland Area ◽  
Maya Collapse

Several lines of archaeological evidence are presented in this paper to suggest the existence of class warfare among the Classic Maya and of issues that historically have been associated with class conflict. This evidence indicates that class warfare may have halted the rule of the monument-producing, or Classic, elites and precipitated the depopulation of the lowland area. The theory is evaluated quantitatively by testing for time-related mathematical patterns that have been found to characterize large-scale conflicts in historical societies. The information used in the evaluation involves the time series data on the duration of rule by Classic elites as inferred from the production of monuments with Long Count dates at a sample of 82 ceremonial centers. The analyses confirm that the Maya data do exhibit the temporal and geographical patterns predicted from the class conflict explanation of the Classic Maya collapse. Alternative predictions from the other theories are considered but generally not found to be supported by these data.

KA'KAW POTS AND COMMON CONTAINERS: CREATING HISTORIES AND COLLECTIVE MEMORIES AMONG THE CLASSIC MAYA OF XUNANTUNICH, BELIZE

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa J. LeCount
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Domestic Consumption ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Public Offerings ◽  
Natural Cycles ◽  
Lowland Maya

AbstractReconstruction of foodways at the Lowland Maya center of Xunantunich, Belize, illustrates how commensality is fundamental to the construction of multilayered identities. Collective memory and linear histories form the foundation of identities because they are the mental frameworks people use to construct shared pasts. At Xunantunich, community identity was expressed though pottery and practices associated with the preparation of foods for domestic consumption and public offerings. In a world of natural cycles centered on family reproduction, horticultural activities, and yearly ceremonies, these symbols and rituals structured the lives of all people and embodied within them a collective memory of community. Linear histories were recorded in images and texts on drinking paraphernalia that were likely used for toasting honored individuals, ancestors, or gods during commemorative rites. These inscriptions and bodily practices marked individuals and their houses as people and places of prominence with separate identities.

Entombment, Authority, and Descent at Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Haviland
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Kinship Theory ◽  
Maya Site ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Lowland Maya

AbstractAt the lowland Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios, two burials have been interpreted in such a way as to suggest: (1) that matrilineal principles of social organization may have been operative in some segments of Classic Maya society; and (2) that Maya political units may have been tied together by marriage alliances. These two hypotheses are examined here in the light of anthropological kinship theory. It is concluded that such marriage alliances are in the realm of possibility, but that matrilineality is unlikely.

The Classic Maya Collapse

2017 ◽  
pp. 244-275
Author(s):  
Guy D. Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Classic Maya ◽  
Maya Collapse

MAYA HETERARCHY AS INFERRED FROM CLASSIC-PERIOD PLAZA PLANS

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall Joseph Becker
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Terminal Classic ◽  
Lowland Maya

Recognition of architectural patterning among groups of structures at lowland Maya sites dating from the Classic period provides insights into the ways that residences and ritual complexes were organized. Each structured group arrangement, or Plaza Plan (PP), reveals an architectural grammar that provides the database enabling us to predict urban as well as rural settlement patterns. Wide variations in sizes among examples of residential PPs suggests that heterarchy was an important aspect of Classic Maya society. Examination of PP2 at Tikal indicates that a heterarchic pattern of organization existed. Heterarchy may relate to the fragility of the structure of lowland Maya kingship, and this may explain the gradual demise of states during the Terminal Classic and Postclassic periods and their replacement by re-emergent Maya chiefdoms.

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