William A Haviland
Biographic Data
| ID | 93040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William A Haviland |
| GIVEN NAMES | William A |
| FAMILY NAME | Haviland |
| SIGNATURE | HAVILAND W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 324 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1
Rules of Descent in Sixteenth Century Yucatan
University of Vermont Anthropologists have long shown a fascination with the operation of descent as an important principle of social organization. That such principles are strongly linked with subsistence and residence patterns has been repeatedly asserted (c£. Driver 1961: 319-324). Needless to say, when dealing with American Indian societies which were conquered by Europeans over 400 years ago, it is not always easy to learn which descent prin…
Marriage and the Family Among the Maya of Cozumel Island, 1570
In his obituary of the late Maya scholar, Ralph L. Roys, Thompson (1967, p. 97) calls attention to important document, on which Roys worked, which has been neglected by those currently engaged in Maya settlement pattern research. The document in question is the Cozumel Census of 1570, which has been called only detailed account of the way the Maya lived at the time of the Spanish conquest (Roys, Scholes and Adams, 1949, p. 14). If this is the cas…
The Rise and Fall of Sexual Inequality
One of the distinguishing features of Tikal is the lack of female representation in both the monumental art and hieroglyphic inscriptions known from the archaeological site. This paper presents the results of a study of 208 burials from Tikal conducted to investigate this apparent androcentric focus. Burials were studied in terms of tomb location and construction, the nature of accompanying grave goods, body alteration, and cause of death. Marked…
On the Maya State
Living with the Ancestors
Glimpses of the Supernatural
Application of a neuropsychological model, developed in the laboratory, to the graffiti of Tikal reveals that the great majority of the latter are products of altered states of consciousness, depictions of visions seen by people in states of trance in relatively private settings. Beneath this art's apparent surface disorder and haphazard arrangement lies a definite neuropsychological order. Consideration of the provenances of graffiti suggests th…
The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800
Status and Power in Classic Maya Society
Preclassic Maya Burials at Cuello, Belize
Thirty years after Mayapan
Chase, Arien F., and Prudence M. Rice, eds. The Lowland Maya Post‐classic. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. viii + 352 pp. including bibliography and subject and author indices. $27.50 cloth
The Classic Maya City
The Original Vermonters
The Original Vermonters
Journal Article The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants, Past and Present. By William A. Haviland and Marjory W. Power. (Hanover: N.H.: University Press of New England, 1981. xxi + 326 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access Laurence M. Hauptman Laurence M. Hauptman State University of New York, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
The Original Vermonters
In a thoroughly enjoyable and readable book Haviland and Power effectively shatter the myth that Indians never lived in Vermont.--Library Journal
Introduction to the Archaeology of Tikal, Guatemala
Where the Rich Folks Lived
In a recent statistical study of settlement patterns at Tikal, Guatemala, Arnold and Ford failed to find evidence for the concentric zonation model which specifies that high-ranking persons generally lived closer to the site center than persons of lesser rank. However, their conclusions are invalidated by their exclusion from consideration of the houses occupied by the wealthy and powerful members of Tikal society. Attention is called to other de…
On Price's Presentation of Data From Tikal
Dynastic Genealogies from Tikal, Guatemala
Building upon the work of several other people, Clemency Coggins has recently presented a tentative reconstruction of Tikal dynastic history, complete with a proposed genealogy of the rulers themselves. These are important data for any attempt to reconstruct the social and political organization of Tikal, and this paper explores their implications. The data are consistent with models of ancient Maya sociopolitical organization in which patrilinea…
Occupational Specialization at Tikal, Guatemala
A recent article in American Antiquity discusses evidence for occupational specialization among the Classic Maya at Tikal, Guatemala. The purpose of this paper is to amplify that discussion through review of the artifactual evidence for stoneworking and monument carving as a specialized occupation at Tikal. It is suggested that this occupation was confined to a specific family line within a lineage, the members of which were artisans engaged in a…
The Prehistory of the Southeastern Maya Periphery
Archaeology
Estimates of Maya Population
The historic Maya habit of abandoning a hut after the occupant's death, and the tendency to move communal sites, may be responses to population decimation and foreign political domination following breakup of the Mayapan hegemony. If so, it is doubtful that they should be projected back to the Classic Maya
Family Size, Prehistoric Population Estimates, and the Ancient Maya
Current interest among anthropologists in population size as a major independent variable makes it likely that attempts will be made to estimate the size of populations resident at various prehistoric sites at particular points in time in Mesoamerica. Such estimates are likely to depend on some notion of the average number of people resident in a single house. The problem of arriving at such a statistic is illustrated for the Classic Maya site of…
Entombment, Authority, and Descent at Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala
At the lowland Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios, two burials have been interpreted in such a way as to suggest: (1) that matrilineal principles of social organization may have been operative in some segments of Classic Maya society; and (2) that Maya political units may have been tied together by marriage alliances. These two hypotheses are examined here in the light of anthropological kinship theory. It is concluded that such marriage alliances…
Stature at Tikal, Guatemala
This paper presents an analysis of stature of 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 this remained relatively stable over several centuries. A marked reduction in male stature in Late Classic t…
Tikal, Guatemala and Mesoamerican urbanism
A common assumption is that in Precolumbian times, an urban form of civilization developed in the highlands of Mesoamerica, while a non‐urban form developed in the tropical lowlands. However, excavations at Tikal, one of the largest Maya sites, questions this assumption. The results of these excavations are summarized, and suggestions are offered which might help to explain the emergence of urbanism in the lowlands
The Classic Maya City
The Prehistory of the Southeastern Maya Periphery
A New Population Estimate for Tikal, Guatemala
In 1965, the author of this paper published a preliminary population estimate of 10,000-11,000 persons for Tikal as then known. Since 1965, mapping and excavation on four radial strips which run up to 12 km. in the four cardinal directions from the center of Tikal have broadened our knowledge of settlement at this site. We now have a good idea of the actual size of Late Classic Tikal, as well as its demographic makeup. This permits a new estimate…
The Rise and Fall of Sexual Inequality
One of the distinguishing features of Tikal is the lack of female representation in both the monumental art and hieroglyphic inscriptions known from the archaeological site. This paper presents the results of a study of 208 burials from Tikal conducted to investigate this apparent androcentric focus. Burials were studied in terms of tomb location and construction, the nature of accompanying grave goods, body alteration, and cause of death. Marked…
Family Size, Prehistoric Population Estimates, and the Ancient Maya
Current interest among anthropologists in population size as a major independent variable makes it likely that attempts will be made to estimate the size of populations resident at various prehistoric sites at particular points in time in Mesoamerica. Such estimates are likely to depend on some notion of the average number of people resident in a single house. The problem of arriving at such a statistic is illustrated for the Classic Maya site of…
Status and Power in Classic Maya Society
Glimpses of the Supernatural
Application of a neuropsychological model, developed in the laboratory, to the graffiti of Tikal reveals that the great majority of the latter are products of altered states of consciousness, depictions of visions seen by people in states of trance in relatively private settings. Beneath this art's apparent surface disorder and haphazard arrangement lies a definite neuropsychological order. Consideration of the provenances of graffiti suggests th…
Dynastic Genealogies from Tikal, Guatemala
Building upon the work of several other people, Clemency Coggins has recently presented a tentative reconstruction of Tikal dynastic history, complete with a proposed genealogy of the rulers themselves. These are important data for any attempt to reconstruct the social and political organization of Tikal, and this paper explores their implications. The data are consistent with models of ancient Maya sociopolitical organization in which patrilinea…
Where the Rich Folks Lived
In a recent statistical study of settlement patterns at Tikal, Guatemala, Arnold and Ford failed to find evidence for the concentric zonation model which specifies that high-ranking persons generally lived closer to the site center than persons of lesser rank. However, their conclusions are invalidated by their exclusion from consideration of the houses occupied by the wealthy and powerful members of Tikal society. Attention is called to other de…
The Original Vermonters
In a thoroughly enjoyable and readable book Haviland and Power effectively shatter the myth that Indians never lived in Vermont.--Library Journal
On the Maya State
Occupational Specialization at Tikal, Guatemala
A recent article in American Antiquity discusses evidence for occupational specialization among the Classic Maya at Tikal, Guatemala. The purpose of this paper is to amplify that discussion through review of the artifactual evidence for stoneworking and monument carving as a specialized occupation at Tikal. It is suggested that this occupation was confined to a specific family line within a lineage, the members of which were artisans engaged in a…
Estimates of Maya Population
The historic Maya habit of abandoning a hut after the occupant's death, and the tendency to move communal sites, may be responses to population decimation and foreign political domination following breakup of the Mayapan hegemony. If so, it is doubtful that they should be projected back to the Classic Maya
Social Integration and the Classic Maya
In recent years, there has been much interest in the use of ethnographic data derived from modern Maya groups for the interpretation of Classic Maya civilization. It has been suggested by some that civil and religious positions in Classic Maya society were filled by a system of rotation such as exists today among some Maya groups. Such a system would have served as a powerful force for the integration of both priest and peasant in Classic Maya so…
Entombment, Authority, and Descent at Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala
At the lowland Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios, two burials have been interpreted in such a way as to suggest: (1) that matrilineal principles of social organization may have been operative in some segments of Classic Maya society; and (2) that Maya political units may have been tied together by marriage alliances. These two hypotheses are examined here in the light of anthropological kinship theory. It is concluded that such marriage alliances…
The Original Vermonters
Journal Article The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants, Past and Present. By William A. Haviland and Marjory W. Power. (Hanover: N.H.: University Press of New England, 1981. xxi + 326 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access Laurence M. Hauptman Laurence M. Hauptman State University of New York, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
A Note on the Social Organization of the Chontal Maya
Preclassic Maya Burials at Cuello, Belize
Archaeology
Comments and Replies
Prehistoric Maya Settlements in the Belize Valley
Social Integration and the Classic Maya
In recent years, there has been much interest in the use of ethnographic data derived from modern Maya groups for the interpretation of Classic Maya civilization. It has been suggested by some that civil and religious positions in Classic Maya society were filled by a system of rotation such as exists today among some Maya groups. Such a system would have served as a powerful force for the integration of both priest and peasant in Classic Maya so…
Stature at Tikal, Guatemala
This paper presents an analysis of stature of 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 this remained relatively stable over several centuries. A marked reduction in male stature in Late Classic t…
Comment on “Milpas and Milperos” 1
A New Population Estimate for Tikal, Guatemala
In 1965, the author of this paper published a preliminary population estimate of 10,000-11,000 persons for Tikal as then known. Since 1965, mapping and excavation on four radial strips which run up to 12 km. in the four cardinal directions from the center of Tikal have broadened our knowledge of settlement at this site. We now have a good idea of the actual size of Late Classic Tikal, as well as its demographic makeup. This permits a new estimate…
Archeology
A Note on the Social Organization of the Chontal Maya
Archeology
Tikal, Guatemala and Mesoamerican urbanism
A common assumption is that in Precolumbian times, an urban form of civilization developed in the highlands of Mesoamerica, while a non‐urban form developed in the tropical lowlands. However, excavations at Tikal, one of the largest Maya sites, questions this assumption. The results of these excavations are summarized, and suggestions are offered which might help to explain the emergence of urbanism in the lowlands
Entombment, Authority, and Descent at Altar de Sacrificios, Guatemala
At the lowland Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios, two burials have been interpreted in such a way as to suggest: (1) that matrilineal principles of social organization may have been operative in some segments of Classic Maya society; and (2) that Maya political units may have been tied together by marriage alliances. These two hypotheses are examined here in the light of anthropological kinship theory. It is concluded that such marriage alliances…
Folklore
Estimates of Maya Population
The historic Maya habit of abandoning a hut after the occupant's death, and the tendency to move communal sites, may be responses to population decimation and foreign political domination following breakup of the Mayapan hegemony. If so, it is doubtful that they should be projected back to the Classic Maya
Family Size, Prehistoric Population Estimates, and the Ancient Maya
Current interest among anthropologists in population size as a major independent variable makes it likely that attempts will be made to estimate the size of populations resident at various prehistoric sites at particular points in time in Mesoamerica. Such estimates are likely to depend on some notion of the average number of people resident in a single house. The problem of arriving at such a statistic is illustrated for the Classic Maya site of…
Archaeology
Occupational Specialization at Tikal, Guatemala
A recent article in American Antiquity discusses evidence for occupational specialization among the Classic Maya at Tikal, Guatemala. The purpose of this paper is to amplify that discussion through review of the artifactual evidence for stoneworking and monument carving as a specialized occupation at Tikal. It is suggested that this occupation was confined to a specific family line within a lineage, the members of which were artisans engaged in a…
The Prehistory of the Southeastern Maya Periphery
Dynastic Genealogies from Tikal, Guatemala
Building upon the work of several other people, Clemency Coggins has recently presented a tentative reconstruction of Tikal dynastic history, complete with a proposed genealogy of the rulers themselves. These are important data for any attempt to reconstruct the social and political organization of Tikal, and this paper explores their implications. The data are consistent with models of ancient Maya sociopolitical organization in which patrilinea…
On Price's Presentation of Data From Tikal
Introduction to the Archaeology of Tikal, Guatemala
Where the Rich Folks Lived
In a recent statistical study of settlement patterns at Tikal, Guatemala, Arnold and Ford failed to find evidence for the concentric zonation model which specifies that high-ranking persons generally lived closer to the site center than persons of lesser rank. However, their conclusions are invalidated by their exclusion from consideration of the houses occupied by the wealthy and powerful members of Tikal society. Attention is called to other de…
The Original Vermonters
Journal Article The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants, Past and Present. By William A. Haviland and Marjory W. Power. (Hanover: N.H.: University Press of New England, 1981. xxi + 326 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access Laurence M. Hauptman Laurence M. Hauptman State University of New York, New Paltz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J…
The Original Vermonters
In a thoroughly enjoyable and readable book Haviland and Power effectively shatter the myth that Indians never lived in Vermont.--Library Journal
The Original Vermonters
Preclassic Maya Burials at Cuello, Belize
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