Before Kukulk?n: Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxun? by Tiesler, Vera

Before Kukulk?n: Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxun? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816555383)

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Before Kukulk?n: Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxun? by Tiesler, Vera

Before Kukulk?n: Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxun?

$50.00
Before Kukulk?n: Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxun? by Tiesler, Vera

Before Kukulk?n: Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxun?

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Format: Paperback
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This volume illuminates human lifeways in the northern Maya lowlands prior to the rise of Chich?n Itz?. This period and area have been poorly understood on their own terms, obscured by scholarly focus on the central lowland Maya kingdoms. Before Kukulk?n is anchored in three decades of interdisciplinary research at the Classic Maya capital of Yaxun?, located at a contentious crossroads of the northern Maya lowlands.

Using bioarchaeology, mortuary archaeology, and culturally sensitive mainstream archaeology, the authors create an in-depth regional understanding while also laying out broader ways of learning about the Maya past. Part 1 examines ancient lifeways among the Maya at Yaxun?, while part 2 explores different meanings of dying and cycling at the settlement and beyond: ancestral practices, royal entombment and desecration, and human sacrifice. The authors close with a discussion of the last years of occupation at Yaxun? and the role of Chich?n Itz? in the abandonment of this urban center.

Before Kukulk?n provides a cohesive synthesis of the evolving roles and collective identities of locals and foreigners at the settlement and their involvement in the region's trajectory. Theoretically informed and contextualized discussions offer unique glimpses of everyday life and death in the socially fluid Maya city. These findings, in conjunction with other documented series of skeletal remains from this region, provide a nuanced picture of the social and biocultural dynamics that operated successfully for centuries before the arrival of the Itz?.


Author: Vera Tiesler, Andrea Cucina, Travis W. Stanton
ISBN-10: 0816555389
ISBN-13: 9780816555383
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2025
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
By Vera Tiesler
By Vera Tiesler
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Vera Tiesler is a research professor for the College of Anthropological Sciences at the Autonomous University of Yucat?n. She is the co-editor of Janaab' Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler and New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society, and author of The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modification: New Approaches to Head Shaping and Its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond.

Andrea Cucina is an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Yucat?n. He is the co-editor of Janaab' Pakal of Palenque: Reconstructing the Life and Death of a Maya Ruler and New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society.

Travis W. Stanton is an associate professor and department chair at the University of California, Riverside, where he co-directs the PIPCY project currently ongoing at the site of Yaxun?. He is co-editor of Ruins of the Past: The Use and Perception of Abandoned Structures in the Maya Lowlands and Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare.

David A. Freidel is a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He was the principal investigator of the Selz Foundation Yaxun? Project.

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