Susan Milbrath, Carlos Peraza Lope,
Archaeological excavations begun at Mayapan in 1996 require re-evaluation of this site, sometimes disparaged as representing “decadent” Postclassic Maya culture. New discoveries show that ... both areas. Another important Postclassic trade route connected Mayapan to Yucatan's eastern coast and Peten, Guatemala. ... three areas. Revival of Terminal Classic traditions at Mayapan inspired certain architectural constructions and a stela cult ... period provide intriguing evidence that political events at Mayapan may be linked with the site's architectural ...
Tópico(s): Historical Studies in Central America
2003 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
Susan Milbrath, Carlos Peraza Lope,
... of Classic and Terminal Classic traditions at Postclassic Mayapán, the last Maya capital in Mexico. The survival ... Terminal Classic ceramic types and architectural forms at Mayapán around A.D. 1100–1200 reflects a pattern ... of Chichén Itzá. The rulers and priests of Mayapán displayed their connection with the Terminal Classic Maya ... to assert political power. The Puuc revival at Mayapán is linked with the Xiu priests, whereas the ... D. 1250 and 1400, revival-style architecture at Mayapán was inspired by local traditions in the area ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
2009 - Cambridge University Press | Latin American Antiquity
The ceremonial architecture of Late Postclassic Mayapán (A.D. 1268–1441) in Yucatán, Mexico, included repetitive arrangements of buildings known as temple assemblages. Archaeological investigations conducted by the Proyecto ... Maya. The Kowoj claimed to have migrated from Mayapán sometime after the city’s collapse in A.D. 1441. Indigenous documents also describe Kowoj in Mayapán and linguistic data indicate migrations between Yucatán and ... defines the location of the Kowoj in both Mayapán and Petén. I argue that these assemblages were ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2003 - Cambridge University Press | Latin American Antiquity
Marilyn A. Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope,
... paper presents archeological evidence for animal use at Mayapán, the largest capital city of the Postclassic period ... domestic settlement zones. Four arguments are presented regarding Mayapán's animal use in this paper. First, certain ... of ritually discarding deer skulls were practiced at Mayapán. Mayapán's faunal exploitation patterns were embedded in important ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2008 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary International
Abstract Residents of Mayapan produced and consumed metal artifacts through long-distance commercial exchange networks in the Postclassic Mesoamerican world system. In this ... from lost-wax casting from recent excavations at Mayapan, with reference to previously excavated collections by the ... those who could afford them. I then compare Mayapan with other sites in the Postclassic Mesoamerican world ... in the interregional distribution of metal artifacts. Although Mayapan did not have local sources of native metal ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2008 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
Carlos Peraza Lope, Marilyn A. Masson, Timothy S. Hare, Pedro Candelario Delgado Kú,
Thirty-eight radiocarbon dates from Mayapan provide new information about the Postclassic chronology of this city. We analyze ceramic frequencies associated with our radiocarbon samples and discuss temporally diagnostic types in the Mayapan sequence. Radiocarbon samples from early construction contexts suggest ... to the final collapse. Our results imply that Mayapan may have begun as a small center while ... on the peninsula, and that the establishment of Mayapan as a major regional capital may have been ...
Tópico(s): Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
2006 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
Jennifer L. Meanwell, Elizabeth H. Paris, Wilberth Cruz Alvarado, Carlos Peraza Lope,
... the Postclassic (AD 1050–1440) Maya site of Mayapán, Mexico, have uncovered a variety of metal objects, ... of these metallurgical ceramics to typical ceramics from Mayapán demonstrates that the fabrics are very different, and ... metal and metallurgical ceramics across the site of Mayapán suggests that metal production activities may have been ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
2013 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Archaeological Science
Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico, was the most prominent Maya ceremonial center from the mid-thirteenth to the mid- ... which lay in creation. In the heart of Mayapan lay its exemplary center, an architectural model of ... on a mural in Structure Q-80 at Mayapan, with additional symbolism suggesting that each building was ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2001 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
Elizabeth H. Paris, Carlos Peraza Lope, Marilyn A. Masson, Pedro C. Delgado Kú, Bárbara C. Escamilla Ojeda,
... period (CE 1150–1450) Maya political capital of Mayapán, Yucatan, Mexico, with a particular focus on the ... log hives, which were widely distributed throughout the Mayapán's urban landscape. High concentrations of limestone disks ...
Tópico(s): Psychedelics and Drug Studies
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Julián E. García‐Rejón, Mildred P. López-Uribe, María A. Loroño-Pino, Roger Arana-Guardía, Maria Puc-Tinal, Genny M. López-Uribe, Carlos Coba-Tún, Carlos M. Baak‐Baak, Carlos Machaín-Williams, Guadalupe Reyes-Solís, Saúl Lozano‐Fuentes, Karla Saavedra-Rodríguez, William C. Black, Barry J. Beaty, Lars Eisen,
... From nine of these communities (Cantamayec, Hoctun, Huhi, Mayapan, Sanahcat, Sudzal, Tepakan, Teya, and Xocchel), we also ... 2011 and came from residential premises (Cantamayec, Hoctun, Mayapan, Sanahcat, and Tepakan) as well as cemeteries (Hoctun, ... locations in Yucatán State (Cantamayec, Sudzal, Hoctun, Huhi, Mayapan, Sanahcat, Tepakan, Teya, and Xocchel; 1, 2), which ...
Tópico(s): Viral Infections and Vectors
2012 - Wiley | Journal of Vector Ecology
... 135-136 Free Access Archaeology: The Pottery of Mayapan: Including Studies of Ceramic Material from Uxmal, Kabah, ...
Tópico(s): Archaeological and Geological Studies
1975 - Wiley | American Anthropologist
Bradley W. Russell, Bruce H. Dahlin,
... estimated lime usage at the Maya site of Mayapan, the data collected from experimental lime burning suggest ...
Tópico(s): Building materials and conservation
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Field Archaeology
... accompanying child burials at the Postclassic site of Mayapán in the Northern Yucatán. Grave goods associated with ... that grave goods included with child burials at Mayapán functioned not only as playthings, but also as ...
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Childhood in the Past
Marilyn A. Masson, David A. Freidel,
... Classic Period Tikal to those of Postclassic Period Mayapán. The assemblages at Mayapán provide comparative indices from a city known historically ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2012 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Rosemary A. Joyce, Whitney Davis, Alice Β. Kehoe, Edward Schortman, Patricia Urbán, Ellen E. Bell,
... Modification at the Postclassic Maya Urban Centre of Mayapan, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 32, no.11 (Jun 2021): ... doi.org/10.1017/S0956536108000230Elizabeth H. Paris METALLURGY, MAYAPAN, AND THE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICAN WORLD SYSTEM, Ancient Mesoamerica ...
Tópico(s): Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
1993 - University of Chicago Press | Current Anthropology
Timothy S. Hare, Marilyn A. Masson, Bradley W. Russell,
... survey of a 40 square kilometer area surrounding Mayapán, Yucatan, Mexico used high-density LiDAR data to ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2014 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Remote Sensing
... most distinctive features of the Postclassic capital of Mayapan is the immense wall that encloses large portions ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Natural History
2013 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
Jermilia Charles, Chandra S. Tangudu, Stefanie L. Hurt, Charlotte Tumescheit, Andrew E. Firth, Julián E. García‐Rejón, Carlos Machaín-Williams, Bradley J. Blitvich,
... seq. Two novel viruses, designated Uxmal virus and Mayapan virus, were identified. Uxmal virus was isolated from ... be classified within the recently proposed taxon Negevirus. Mayapan virus was recovered from two pools of Psorophora ...
Tópico(s): Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
2018 - Microbiology Society | Journal of General Virology
Jennifer L. Meanwell, Elizabeth H. Paris, Carlos Peraza Lope, Linda M. Seymour, Admir Mašić,
... in metalworking at the Postclassic period city of Mayapán. Blowpipe technology has long been hypothesized to be ... Mesoamerica. To our knowledge, the tuyères recovered at Mayapán are the first archaeologically documented tuyères for pre- ... with previous evidence for small-scale metalworking at Mayapán. Blowpipe use in metallurgical production is a logical ... from South America. Furthermore, the dimensions of the Mayapán tuyères are consistent with the internal diameter of ... suggest that when combined with wooden blowpipes, the Mayapán tuyères would have been ideal for small-scale, ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2020 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Julia Homann, Niklas Karbach, Stacy Carolin, Daniel H. James, David A Hodell, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Ola Kwiecien, Mark Brenner, Carlos Peraza Lope, Thorsten Hoffmann,
... old stalagmite from Cenote Ch'en Mul, at Mayapan (Mexico), the largest Postclassic Maya capital of the ... last 400 years, suggesting greater fire activity at Mayapan during these two decades. The higher concentrations of ...
Tópico(s): Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
2023 - Copernicus Publications | Biogeosciences
Carlos Peraza Lope, Marilyn A. Masson, Wilberth Cruz Alvarado, Bradley W. Russell,
... contexts of effigy censer and figurine molds at Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico suggest a tightly controlled industry in ... oversight over production and distribution. Attached artisans at Mayapan made these and other restricted goods for residents ... practice for the majority of urban residents at Mayapan.
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2022 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
Stanley Serafin, Carlos Peraza Lope, Andrea Cucina,
... dynamics of the Postclassic regional Maya capital of Mayapan through biodistance analysis of dental nonmetric traits. Mayapan's ancient population has drawn considerable scholarly interest, ...
Tópico(s): Forensic and Genetic Research
2014 - Springer International Publishing | SpringerBriefs in archaeology. Archaeological heritage management/SpringerBriefs in archaeology/Springer briefs in archaeological heritage management
Elizabeth H. Paris, Elizabeth Baquedano, Carlos Peraza Lope, Marilyn A. Masson, Douglas J. Kennett, Stanley Serafin, Jennifer L. Meanwell,
... Postclassic period ( a.d. 1100–1450) city of Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico. We document metallurgical production at R- ... most significant archaeological contexts associated with metalworking at Mayapan. Salvage excavations in 1998 recovered a small cache ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
2022 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
... la conceptualisation de l'oracle de Venus a Mayapan pourrait faire partie des traditions commemorant Venus et/ ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
2003 - SAGE Publishing | Journal for the History of Astronomy
... planning, settlement patterns, economy, and religious organization at Mayapán, the largest urban center and last regional capital ... own ongoing Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia–Mayapán and Economic Foundations of Mayapán projects, doctoral dissertations, and licenciatura theses.The book ... scholarship that has influenced the authors' ideas about Mayapán as a city, an urban center, and a ... and religious offices and hierarchies and to relate Mayapán's absolute and relative archaeological chronologies to ethnohistoric ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
2019 - Duke University Press | Hispanic American Historical Review
Claudia A. García Solís, Valeria García Vierna, Adela Vázquez Veiga,
Mayapán boasts various sculptural and pictorial elements that hold great aesthetic and informative value. Nevertheless, these quite ... 2006 a new intervention phase was initiated in Mayapán focused on understanding the complex set of problems ...
Tópico(s): Conservation Techniques and Studies
2010 - | Intervención
Tópico(s): Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
1999 - EDITORIAL RAICES | Arqueología mexicana
... articles citing this article:Elizabeth H. Paris METALLURGY, MAYAPAN, AND THE POSTCLASSIC MESOAMERICAN WORLD SYSTEM, Ancient Mesoamerica ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
1953 - University of New Mexico Press | Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
... L. Smith 1952 Excavations in house mounds at Mayapan. Current Reports, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Vol. 1, ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
1955 - Wiley | American Anthropologist
William R. Coe, Michael D. Coe,
... house-mound and population studies by Carnegie at Mayapan and by Gordon Willey in British Honduras. And ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
1956 - Cambridge University Press | American Antiquity