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THE 2016 INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURE A9 AT XUNANTUNICH, BELIZE Douglas Tilden Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project
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The Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance Project
A Report of the 2015 Field Season
Burial practices can provide insight into the complex and multilayered identities of both individuals and communities. We explore one aspect of identity-an individual's origin-and the way that it was expressed in funerary treatment at Xunantunich in the Belize Valley. Strontium, carbon, and oxygen isotope values in the tooth enamel of 19 individuals show that some individuals with nonlocal origins were buried in the same households, or even the same graves, as locally born individuals. In contrast, most individuals with Central Peten-like isotope values were placed in atypical burial positions and graves, including termination ritual contexts. We discuss the relationship between their origins and burial treatment in relation to major political changes that were occurring during Late and Terminal Classic periods in the Maya lowlands, and show that origin also was important in burial treatment in contemporaneous cultures elsewhere in the Americas. © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York. All rights are reserved.
The archaeological record, as well as written texts, oral traditions,
and iconographic representations, express the Maya perception of cosmic
order, including the concepts of quadripartite division and layered
cosmos. The ritual act of portioning and layering created spatial order
and was used to organize everything from the heavens to the layout of
altars. These acts were also metaphors for world creation, world order,
and establishing the center as a position of power and authority. This
article examines the articulations of these concepts from the level of
caches to the level of regions from the past and present in an attempt
to understand these ancient perceptions. We emphasize that basic
organizational notions of the cosmos permeate all societal levels and
argue that scholars should expand their focus to include how the sacred
landscape and its related ideology were reproduced in the lives of
everyday people.
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