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1959 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
Brent Woodfill, Chloé Andrieu,
Abstract This article reviews new evidence suggesting that Tikal and its allies controlled trade along the Pasión ... Pasión River sites showed the strong influence of Tikal during this time period that could indicate that ... lithic collection does demonstrate an important change in Tikal's importation of both obsidian and jade during ... the drastic increase of lithic raw materials at Tikal strongly suggest that Tikal was directly or indirectly controlling the Chixoy-Pasión ... route at this time. After the defeat of Tikal by Caracol in a.d. 562, it apparently ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Natural History
2012 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
A. P. Maudslay, E. C. Rye, J. Coles,
... of the Newly-Discovered Indian Ruins of Quiriguá, Tikal, and the Usumacinta. Obituary: William Desborough Cooley.
1883 - Gale Group | NCCO-STM 1of2
... using data from the ancient Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala. The skeletons of eight migrants from distant geological zones are readily apparent among the 83 Tikal skeletons sampled. Three additional non-local skeletons can be eliminated to obtain a normally distributed “local” Tikal sample. The mean of this sample is higher ... may have been used to treat maize at Tikal. It is possible that imported sea salt with ... ratio could account for this elevated mean for Tikal humans. Modeling demonstrates that dietary 87Sr/86Sr may ...
Tópico(s): Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
2005 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Archaeological Science
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2003 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
María José González, Howard Quigley, Curtis I. Taylor,
... on radiotelemetry of this species were studied in Tikal National Park, Guatemala 1988-1989 and 1993-1994. ... coworkers (1979) during a three-week period in Tikal National Park. Biologists' lack of concern may be ... AND METHODS Study area.-We studied turkeys in Tikal National Park (17? 33' N, 89? 35' W) ... Peten, Guatemala (Fig. 1). The Maya city of Tikal was one of the most prominent developments of ... D.). Because of its archaelogical and ecological importance, Tikal was decreed a national park in 1955, with ...
Tópico(s): Bird parasitology and diseases
1998 - Wilson Ornithological Society | The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
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1965 - Gale Group | TDA
... the prehistoric population from the Maya site of Tikal, Guatemala. From this analysis, based on 55 skeletons from the Tikal burial series, three important conclusions emerge with respect to ancient Maya demography and social organization. (1) Tikal was settled by people of moderate stature, and ... between those buried in tombs and others at Tikal suggest that, in the last century B.C., a distinct ruling class developed at Tikal. This simple class division of rulers and commoners ... dimorphism in stature between males and females at Tikal. This is probably partially genetic and partially a ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
1967 - Cambridge University Press | American Antiquity
... one of the Classic-period residential groups at Tikal was the residence of a family of potters ... the borders of residential Group 4H-1 at Tikal led me to postulate that the bajo was ... on adjacent house lots, define a barrio within Tikal whose occupants formed an extended kin unit sharing ... the middens found adjacent to residential groups at Tikal provide clues to the location of a specific ... that a barrio -like cluster of households at Tikal, with its own ritual center (Group 5G-I), ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
2003 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
G. T. Austin, Nick M. Haddad, Thomas D. Sisk, D. D. Murphy, Alan E. Launer, Paul R. Ehrlich,
An inventory of the butterflies of Tikal National Park and vicinity, in the Department of Peten in northern Guatemala, is being conducted as part of a long-term study ... a list of 535 species recorded from the Tikal area from February 1992 through November 1994 with ... recorded from the country. Species richness for the Tikal site is greatest during the dry season and ... inventario de las mariposas diurnas del Parque Nacional Tikal y areas aledanas en el Departamento de Peten ... de 535 especies registradas en el area de Tikal desde febrero de 1992 hasta noviembre de 1994, ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
1996 - Association for Tropical Lepidoptera | Tropical lepidoptera research
David M. Pendergast, William R. Coe,
... report is integral and pivotal to the entire Tikal publications series. Produced in six separate casebound volumes ( ... monumental study looks at the very hub of Tikal. Tikal Report 14 is a tribute to its author, ... Coe, who not only was able to salvage Tikal from the jungle but meticulously recorded all the ... integrated site report of unprecedented size and scope. Tikal Report 14 will be of vital interest to ...
Tópico(s): American Environmental and Regional History
1992 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Field Archaeology
Adrian S. Z. Chase, Rudolf Cesaretti,
The Classic Period Maya cities of Caracol and Tikal possessed unique urban morphologies of water management. In ... distributed nature of monumental nodes. The landscape of Tikal exhibits a lower slope, is generally smoother, and ... with their monumental reservoirs. Additionally, the people of Tikal invested in bajo margin agriculture. The differences in ... rainfall, increase soil saturation, and reduce this runoff. Tikal's landscape on the whole presents fewer hazards ...
Tópico(s): Tree-ring climate responses
2018 - Wiley | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
... types of writing, drawing and painting. Likewise, in Tikal, on the basis of formal style or technique, ... upon which most of the art history of Tikal will be written. Maya graffiti are among the ... gouged punctuate, painted and printed architectural graffiti of Tikal represent the largest known collection of Maya graffiti. ... such as shells, ceramics and obsidians found in Tikal. Many of the centers listed in Chart 1 ...
Tópico(s): Public Spaces through Art
2013 - National Autonomous University of Mexico | Estudios de Cultura Maya
Chris S. Balzotti, David L. Webster, Timothy Murtha, Steven L. Petersen, Richard L. Burnett, Richard E. Terry,
The ancient polity of Tikal has been extensively studied by archaeologists and soil scientists, but more information is needed to determine the specific subsistence and ... during a re-evaluation of the earthworks of Tikal. The objective of this research was to combine ... positioned within a 300 km2 region surrounding the Tikal site centre (17° 13′ 19.0″ N, 89° ... within the study site soils suggests that the Tikal area supported a variety of food production systems.
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2013 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Remote Sensing
... human teeth from the ancient Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala, that illuminate the role that migration played ... life, we can identify foreign-born individuals at Tikal by their outlying strontium and oxygen isotope ratios. ... indicate that approximately 11–16% of the sampled Tikal skeletons spent their childhood at distant sites. Most ... peers was important in the rise of the Tikal polity, however, immigration from all social tiers contributed ...
Tópico(s): Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
2012 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
... and wealth differentiation within the peripheral areas of Tikal, Guatemala, and intersite areas north and south of Tikal. Frequency counts of differing major shape classes show ... also indications of a special relationship between central Tikal and the minor center of Navahuelal located beyond the edges of the Tikal settlement zone.
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2003 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
... two important Classic Maya centers, namely, Copán and Tikal.David Stuart, one of the most important epigraphers ... of the events of 16 January 378 at Tikal and associated Classic Maya cities. On that day ... on the same day the reigning king of Tikal died. These two events initiate a one-year hiatus in the rule of Tikal that is ended by the accession of a ... she was from the region. Thus at both Tikal and Copán, the Early Classic Teotihuacan-Maya interaction ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
2001 - Duke University Press | Hispanic American Historical Review
Juan Pedro Laporte, Vilma Fialko,
Resumen Como parte integral del área central de Tikal se encuentra un amplio conjunto arquitectónico conocido como ... de Conmemoración Astronómica o de Ritual Público de Tikal, en donde se condujeron actividades de conducción ritual, ... este conjunto tuvo en la estructura política de Tikal, permite observar una parte de la historia del ... ha planteado por lo general el panorama de Tikal en las tierras bajas centrales.
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
1995 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
... Coggins has recently presented a tentative reconstruction of Tikal dynastic history, complete with a proposed genealogy of ... to reconstruct the social and political organization of Tikal, and this paper explores their implications. The data ... and strong central political authority were important. At Tikal, this seems to have been the case from ... and support is probably untenable, at least for Tikal.
Tópico(s): Indigenous Cultures and History
1977 - Cambridge University Press | American Antiquity
... estimate of 10,000-11,000 persons for Tikal as then known. Since 1965, mapping and excavation ... the four cardinal directions from the center of Tikal have broadened our knowledge of settlement at this ... idea of the actual size of Late Classic Tikal, as well as its demographic makeup. This permits ... 000 persons. It is suggested that Late Classic Tikal qualifies as an urban center, but of a ...
Tópico(s): Latin American history and culture
1969 - Cambridge University Press | American Antiquity
... study at the major lowland Maya center of Tikal is described in terms of procedure and results ... of “robbed” masonry. The evidence is cited for Tikal having been a sort of pilgrimage center in ... pattern” at a massive, culturally complex site like Tikal. Various other practical questions are cited which relate ... they apply to the Maya area and to Tikal specifically.
Tópico(s): Indigenous Cultures and History
1962 - Cambridge University Press | American Antiquity
David L. Lentz, Nicholas P. Dunning, Vernon L. Scarborough, Liwy Grazioso,
... than a millennium, the ancient Maya polity of Tikal went through periods of growth, reorganization and adaptive ... following the reorganization of the Late Preclassic period, Tikal experienced an extended period of technological innovation and ... underlying social and ecological domains that contributed to Tikal’s demise.
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Vernon L. Scarborough, Nicholas P. Dunning, Kenneth B. Tankersley, Christopher Carr, Eric Weaver, Liwy Grazioso, Brian Lane, John G. Jones, Palma Buttles, Fred Valdez, David L. Lentz,
... Recent mapping, sediment coring, and formal excavation at Tikal, Guatemala, have markedly expanded our understanding of ancient ... a cofferdam for dredging the largest reservoir at Tikal; the presence of ancient springs linked to the initial colonization of Tikal; the use of sand filtration to cleanse water ...
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
2012 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Kenneth B. Tankersley, Vernon L. Scarborough, Nicholas P. Dunning, Warren D. Huff, J. Barry Maynard, Tammie L. Gerke,
... diffraction and petrographic analyses of reservoir sediments from Tikal, Guatemala have identified significant quantities of decomposed volcanic ... and Ni/Cr ratios of reservoir sediment from Tikal are consistent with a source from Central American ... develop an effective chronology of ash fall at Tikal and the greater Peten.
Tópico(s): earthquake and tectonic studies
2011 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Archaeological Science
David Webster, Timothy Murtha, Kirk Damon Straight, Jay Silverstein, Horacia Martinez, Richard E. Terry, Richard L. Burnett,
... impressive earthworks near the Classic Maya center of Tikal, Guatemala. They were provisionally interpreted as part of ... political capital and the agricultural core of the Tikal polity around A.D. 400–550. These conclusions ... household remains, soils, vegetation, and land use at Tikal.
Tópico(s): Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Field Archaeology
... Teotihuacan ruler was installed as the ruler of Tikal in a.d. 379. This paper reviews the ... larger data set of strontium isotope ratios on Tikal burials indicates that none of the sampled skeletons ... were foreigners to the Maya Lowlands. Although native Tikal children cannot be distinguished from the skeletons of ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Studies and Ecology
2005 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
... nature, and consequences. I consider the hiatus at Tikal using additional evidence from architecture, settlement patterns, caches ... on portable objects. A preliminary conclusion is that Tikal's long hiatus can be regarded as part ... plain stone monuments was an ongoing phenomenon at Tikal. It was present from Terminal Preclassic times and ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Cultures and History
2003 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
Tikal caches frequently contain a wide variety of marine materials such as shells, fish bones, and stingray ... a.d. 562 to 695—known as the Tikal hiatus—beginning immediately following the defeat of Tikal by Caracol and ending with the ascension of ... toxic marine objects were employed in rituals at Tikal and these rituals were most important during the ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2000 - Cambridge University Press | Ancient Mesoamerica
More than 1,200 artifacts from Tikal provide new information about the presence of Mexican obsidian in the Maya Lowlands and Teotihuacan"s possible role in its transmission. In ... six other Mexican sources were identified in the Tikal sample. These artifacts date from the early Late ... lesser elites or wealthy commoners rather than by Tikal"s rulers.
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
1999 - Cambridge University Press | Latin American Antiquity
Sophia Pincemin, Joyce Marcus, Lynda Florey Folan, William J. Folan, María del Rosario Domínguez Carrasco, Abel Morales López,
... that era is known for major cities like Tikal and Copán, but we knew less about the ... at A.D. 514. On the other hand, Tikal's earliest text dated to A.D. 292, ... Balakbal ruler who was a contemporary of the Tikal ruler Curl Snout. Some 25 years later, Calakmul ... Calakmul ruler who was a contemporary of the Tikal ruler Stormy Sky. Even though we had expected ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
1998 - Cambridge University Press | Latin American Antiquity