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Abstract: During our 2022 field season at Calakmul we discovered a carved stone panel depicting a bound captive accompanied by three eroded glyph blocks that probably rendered the individual’s name. The monument was integrated into a stone wall at the northern edge of Aguada 2, but it is likely that this was not its original location. According to...
In recent years, studies have documented a surprisingly diverse array of social, political, and economic integrative strategies of intermediate elites, enhancing our understanding of ancient Maya social organization. Here, we present the preliminary results of one such study that aims to document practices and activities at Ximbal Che, an intermedi...
Este artículo explora la utilidad de una serie de conceptos relacionados con las teorías de la memoria para la antropología. Primero, se discuten los términos básicos de recuerdo y memoria, y conceptos derivados como memoria procedural, priming, memoria perceptual, memoria semántica, memoria episódica, memoria colectiva, memoria social, memoria his...
When we talk about the epigraphy of Maya hieroglyphs, we usually refer to a broad range of research problems and methods. So broad, actually, that one may speak of a trans-discipline that is concerned not only with the description, analysis, and decipherment of the writing system (grammatology), the evolution of writing and calligraphy (paleography...
La recreación de lugares mitológicos en el espacio construido fue una práctica común entre los mayas del periodo Clásico. Especialmente los templos y las plazas han sido asociados con conceptos cosmológicos y ubicaciones sobrenaturales específicas. No obstante, la identificación e interpretación de estos paisajes primordiales plasmados en los conte...
Intercultural and interethnic relations within Maya sites have received little attention, despite their relevance for our understanding of urban and social developments during the Classic period. One reason for this is the methodological problem of defining ethnic markers and distinguishing cultural influences from cultural identities. Nevertheless...
Abstract: The socio-political structures of the Classic Maya have received considerable attention, especially given the sudden advances made in epigraphy. Textual evidence has
shed light on titles, offices and interaction among royal and—to some extent—non-royal elites, creating a differentiated panorama of basic mechanisms of social cohesion and d...
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Los nombres personales son un elemento importante de los textos jeroglíficos mayas del periodo Clásico (250-900 d.C.) y su análisis aporta información sobre la configuración social y política de esta época. De interés primordial es el nombre colectivo conocido como "glifo emblema" que fungía como título real. En esta ocasión discutimos las implicac...
Los glifos emblema incorporan nombres de lugares, de los cuales algunos hacen referencia a espacios primordiales y a los escenarios de eventos mitológicos. Uno de estos glifos emblema sobrenaturales es el título k’uhul kanu’l ajaw ‘señor divino de Kanu’l’ que principalmente fue ocupado por los gobernantes de Calakmul durante el Clásico tardío. Los...
For more than a century, the city of Calakmul was ruled by the Kanu’l dynasty, being one of the most powerful political entities of the Late Classic period. However, the Kanu’l seem to have arrived at Calakmul only around AD 600. This paper is concerned with the inner social dynamics of the Kanu’l dynasty, considering their mobility and their disco...
Estudios Indiana e monographs and essay collections in the Estudios Indiana series present the results of research on multiethnic, indigenous, and Afro-American societies and cultures in Latin America, both contemporary and historical. It publishes original contributions from all areas within the study of the Americas, including archaeology, ethnoh...
Memory has been a keyword for the peace process in Guatemala in the last fifteen years. According to theories on collective memory it shapes group identities and is crucial for the construction and maintenance of culture. Contrasting maya cultural activism and local commemorative strategies dealing with human rights violations during the civil war,...