Kenichiro Tsukamoto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1344770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenichiro Tsukamoto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenichiro |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsukamoto |
| SIGNATURE | TSUKAMOTO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-9200-9800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Emergence of Kingship and Early Long Counts in the Maya Kingdom of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico
This study examines the relationship between the Long Count and emergent kingship in the central Maya Lowlands. The Long Count was instrumental in the prosperity of lowland Maya kingship during the Classic period (ca. a.d. 250–900), yet its initial application in relation to the emergence of kingship remains poorly understood. We conducted epigraphic, iconographic, and archaeological research at the Maya site of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico. By in…
Rito De Aspersión (Chok Ch’aaj): Una mirada desde la dinastía maya clásica de El Palmar, campeche, México
A partir de las investigaciones arqueológicas y epigráficas efectuadas en El Palmar durante los últimos años, ha quedado de manifiesto su importancia en la región del sur de Campeche como un sitio que estableció vínculos con importantes entidades políticas del mundo maya y cuyos gobernantes comisionaron la construcción de grandes edificaciones y la erección de monumentos esculpidos. En este caso, sobresale la consagración de más de seis decenas d…
Astronomy and Architecture in the El Palmar Area, Campeche, Mexico
Archaeoastronomical studies accomplished in recent decades have revealed that the important civic and ceremonial buildings in the Maya area and elsewhere in Mesoamerica were oriented on astronomical grounds. The dates recorded by solar orientations, which prevail, and the intervening intervals composed easily manageable observational calendars that facilitated the planning of agricultural and related ceremonial activities in the yearly cycle. Her…
Household Participation in the Lithic Industry at the Took' Witz Group at El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico
This study examines the organization of large-scale chert biface production in the Maya Lowlands, focusing on Took' Witz, an architectural group of El Palmar in Campeche, Mexico. Excavations and debitage analysis at three plazuelas and a major debitage deposit revealed a complex lithic industry. The results identified segmented production activities in households, from sourcing materials and early-stage reduction to late-stage biface production. …
Análisis de áreas de actividad en el Grupo Guzmán de El Palmar, Campeche, México
The chemical residue analysis is a powerful method to identify specific activities took place on the plaster floor of a building which was gradually abandoned without leaving artifacts. We analyzed four structures of the Guzmán Group, a plazuela group of the El Palmar archaeological site, which was a residential compound of non-royal elites who held the title of lakam. The results together with other material evidence suggest that lakamob were en…
The Life Course of a Standard-Bearer: A Nonroyal Elite Burial at the Maya Archaeological Site of El Palmar, Mexico
Inspired by life course and osteobiography approaches, this article explores the life and death of an individual associated with thelakamtitle ("banner" in Colonial Yukatek Maya; thus, a "standard-bearer"), a nonroyal elite of Late Classic period Maya society (AD 600-850). Although these elites are depicted on polychrome vessels and carved monuments, little is known about their life experiences and mortuary practices. The present analysis centers…
Building a high‐resolution chronology at the Maya archaeological site of El Palmar, Mexico
This paper discusses how detailed analyses of archaeological contexts and macrobotanical remains are critical for building a high‐resolution chronology in archaeological research. While the application of Bayesian modelling has improved chronology‐building significantly, archaeologists have sometimes neglected different dates recovered from the same depositional layer without further scrutiny. Based on 78 radiocarbon samples, this problem is chal…
Estudio arqueológico y epigráfico del Altar 10 de El Palmar, Campeche, México: Un monumento maya del periodo Clásico Temprano
En el presente artículo se aborda el estudio del Altar 10 de El Palmar, Campeche, monumento erigido en 554 d.C. que contiene un amplio texto jeroglífico y un intrincado conjunto de elementos iconográficos. Su análisis desde las perspectivas epigráfica y arqueológica nos permitió develar aspectos novedosos sobre la historia temprana del señorío maya, la relevancia que tuvo la erección de monolitos en épocas tempranas y las características de los d…
Multiple Identities on the Plazas: The Classic Maya Center of El Palmar, Mexico
Reverential abandonment: A termination ritual at the ancient Maya polity of El Palmar
Political Interactions among Social Actors: Spatial Organization at the Classic Maya Polity of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexicó
This article examines the significance of outlying groups in the spatial organization of Classic Maya settlements. The relative scarcity of textual records concerning outlying groups has often made it difficult for researchers to analyze in detail the political interactions between individuals associated with these groups and the royal authority. The recent discovery of a hieroglyphic stairway at the Guzmán Group, an outlying group of El Palmar, …
Mesoamerican Plazas: Arenas of Community and Power
In this chapter, we reflect on the mechanisms through which political activity becomes incorporated into communal social and cultural life by the creation of spaces for permanent collective action. Our impression is that routine aspects of communitarian life are usually framed by cyclical events capable of attracting a sizable number of individuals leading to a collective experience \nwith political connotations. Hence, our goal is to highlight t…
Un estudio sobre la organizción espacial del antiguo asentamiento maya El Resbalón, Quintana Roo
Tres temporadas de campo (2001-2003) en el sitio arqueológico de El Resbalón, Quintana Roo, que consistieron en el levantamiento topográfico, revelaron la planificación y distribución de las estructuras del lugar. Los resultados obtenidos de los análisis del mapa topográfico y su restitución planimétrica, así como de los materiales encontrados en los sondeos realizadosen el 2002, demostraron la construcción de una identidad unificada y su cambio …
Secuencia constructiva de Las Plazas en el Grupo Principal de El Palmar, Campeche, México
La ubicación y dimensión de los espacios abiertos fueron aspectos considerados al planificar las ciudades de las Tierras Bajas Mayas en el periodo prehispánico. Las plazas eran los espacios políticos donde las élites gobernantes legitimaban a sus autoridades y manifestaban a otros participantes sus capacidades para comunicarse con los ancestros o deidades. Este trabajo se centra en la secuencia constructiva de ocho plazas en el Grupo Principal d…
Reverential abandonment: A termination ritual at the ancient Maya polity of El Palmar
Political Interactions among Social Actors: Spatial Organization at the Classic Maya Polity of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexicó
This article examines the significance of outlying groups in the spatial organization of Classic Maya settlements. The relative scarcity of textual records concerning outlying groups has often made it difficult for researchers to analyze in detail the political interactions between individuals associated with these groups and the royal authority. The recent discovery of a hieroglyphic stairway at the Guzmán Group, an outlying group of El Palmar, …
Mesoamerican Plazas: Arenas of Community and Power
In this chapter, we reflect on the mechanisms through which political activity becomes incorporated into communal social and cultural life by the creation of spaces for permanent collective action. Our impression is that routine aspects of communitarian life are usually framed by cyclical events capable of attracting a sizable number of individuals leading to a collective experience \nwith political connotations. Hence, our goal is to highlight t…
Secuencia constructiva de Las Plazas en el Grupo Principal de El Palmar, Campeche, México
La ubicación y dimensión de los espacios abiertos fueron aspectos considerados al planificar las ciudades de las Tierras Bajas Mayas en el periodo prehispánico. Las plazas eran los espacios políticos donde las élites gobernantes legitimaban a sus autoridades y manifestaban a otros participantes sus capacidades para comunicarse con los ancestros o deidades. Este trabajo se centra en la secuencia constructiva de ocho plazas en el Grupo Principal d…
Análisis de áreas de actividad en el Grupo Guzmán de El Palmar, Campeche, México
The chemical residue analysis is a powerful method to identify specific activities took place on the plaster floor of a building which was gradually abandoned without leaving artifacts. We analyzed four structures of the Guzmán Group, a plazuela group of the El Palmar archaeological site, which was a residential compound of non-royal elites who held the title of lakam. The results together with other material evidence suggest that lakamob were en…
Building a high‐resolution chronology at the Maya archaeological site of El Palmar, Mexico
This paper discusses how detailed analyses of archaeological contexts and macrobotanical remains are critical for building a high‐resolution chronology in archaeological research. While the application of Bayesian modelling has improved chronology‐building significantly, archaeologists have sometimes neglected different dates recovered from the same depositional layer without further scrutiny. Based on 78 radiocarbon samples, this problem is chal…
Estudio arqueológico y epigráfico del Altar 10 de El Palmar, Campeche, México: Un monumento maya del periodo Clásico Temprano
En el presente artículo se aborda el estudio del Altar 10 de El Palmar, Campeche, monumento erigido en 554 d.C. que contiene un amplio texto jeroglífico y un intrincado conjunto de elementos iconográficos. Su análisis desde las perspectivas epigráfica y arqueológica nos permitió develar aspectos novedosos sobre la historia temprana del señorío maya, la relevancia que tuvo la erección de monolitos en épocas tempranas y las características de los d…
Un estudio sobre la organizción espacial del antiguo asentamiento maya El Resbalón, Quintana Roo
Tres temporadas de campo (2001-2003) en el sitio arqueológico de El Resbalón, Quintana Roo, que consistieron en el levantamiento topográfico, revelaron la planificación y distribución de las estructuras del lugar. Los resultados obtenidos de los análisis del mapa topográfico y su restitución planimétrica, así como de los materiales encontrados en los sondeos realizadosen el 2002, demostraron la construcción de una identidad unificada y su cambio …
Secuencia constructiva de Las Plazas en el Grupo Principal de El Palmar, Campeche, México
La ubicación y dimensión de los espacios abiertos fueron aspectos considerados al planificar las ciudades de las Tierras Bajas Mayas en el periodo prehispánico. Las plazas eran los espacios políticos donde las élites gobernantes legitimaban a sus autoridades y manifestaban a otros participantes sus capacidades para comunicarse con los ancestros o deidades. Este trabajo se centra en la secuencia constructiva de ocho plazas en el Grupo Principal d…
Un estudio sobre la organizción espacial del antiguo asentamiento maya El Resbalón, Quintana Roo
Tres temporadas de campo (2001-2003) en el sitio arqueológico de El Resbalón, Quintana Roo, que consistieron en el levantamiento topográfico, revelaron la planificación y distribución de las estructuras del lugar. Los resultados obtenidos de los análisis del mapa topográfico y su restitución planimétrica, así como de los materiales encontrados en los sondeos realizadosen el 2002, demostraron la construcción de una identidad unificada y su cambio …
Mesoamerican Plazas: Arenas of Community and Power
In this chapter, we reflect on the mechanisms through which political activity becomes incorporated into communal social and cultural life by the creation of spaces for permanent collective action. Our impression is that routine aspects of communitarian life are usually framed by cyclical events capable of attracting a sizable number of individuals leading to a collective experience \nwith political connotations. Hence, our goal is to highlight t…
Political Interactions among Social Actors: Spatial Organization at the Classic Maya Polity of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexicó
This article examines the significance of outlying groups in the spatial organization of Classic Maya settlements. The relative scarcity of textual records concerning outlying groups has often made it difficult for researchers to analyze in detail the political interactions between individuals associated with these groups and the royal authority. The recent discovery of a hieroglyphic stairway at the Guzmán Group, an outlying group of El Palmar, …
Multiple Identities on the Plazas: The Classic Maya Center of El Palmar, Mexico
Reverential abandonment: A termination ritual at the ancient Maya polity of El Palmar
Estudio arqueológico y epigráfico del Altar 10 de El Palmar, Campeche, México: Un monumento maya del periodo Clásico Temprano
En el presente artículo se aborda el estudio del Altar 10 de El Palmar, Campeche, monumento erigido en 554 d.C. que contiene un amplio texto jeroglífico y un intrincado conjunto de elementos iconográficos. Su análisis desde las perspectivas epigráfica y arqueológica nos permitió develar aspectos novedosos sobre la historia temprana del señorío maya, la relevancia que tuvo la erección de monolitos en épocas tempranas y las características de los d…
Building a high‐resolution chronology at the Maya archaeological site of El Palmar, Mexico
This paper discusses how detailed analyses of archaeological contexts and macrobotanical remains are critical for building a high‐resolution chronology in archaeological research. While the application of Bayesian modelling has improved chronology‐building significantly, archaeologists have sometimes neglected different dates recovered from the same depositional layer without further scrutiny. Based on 78 radiocarbon samples, this problem is chal…
Análisis de áreas de actividad en el Grupo Guzmán de El Palmar, Campeche, México
The chemical residue analysis is a powerful method to identify specific activities took place on the plaster floor of a building which was gradually abandoned without leaving artifacts. We analyzed four structures of the Guzmán Group, a plazuela group of the El Palmar archaeological site, which was a residential compound of non-royal elites who held the title of lakam. The results together with other material evidence suggest that lakamob were en…
The Life Course of a Standard-Bearer: A Nonroyal Elite Burial at the Maya Archaeological Site of El Palmar, Mexico
Inspired by life course and osteobiography approaches, this article explores the life and death of an individual associated with thelakamtitle ("banner" in Colonial Yukatek Maya; thus, a "standard-bearer"), a nonroyal elite of Late Classic period Maya society (AD 600-850). Although these elites are depicted on polychrome vessels and carved monuments, little is known about their life experiences and mortuary practices. The present analysis centers…
Rito De Aspersión (Chok Ch’aaj): Una mirada desde la dinastía maya clásica de El Palmar, campeche, México
A partir de las investigaciones arqueológicas y epigráficas efectuadas en El Palmar durante los últimos años, ha quedado de manifiesto su importancia en la región del sur de Campeche como un sitio que estableció vínculos con importantes entidades políticas del mundo maya y cuyos gobernantes comisionaron la construcción de grandes edificaciones y la erección de monumentos esculpidos. En este caso, sobresale la consagración de más de seis decenas d…
Astronomy and Architecture in the El Palmar Area, Campeche, Mexico
Archaeoastronomical studies accomplished in recent decades have revealed that the important civic and ceremonial buildings in the Maya area and elsewhere in Mesoamerica were oriented on astronomical grounds. The dates recorded by solar orientations, which prevail, and the intervening intervals composed easily manageable observational calendars that facilitated the planning of agricultural and related ceremonial activities in the yearly cycle. Her…
Household Participation in the Lithic Industry at the Took' Witz Group at El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico
This study examines the organization of large-scale chert biface production in the Maya Lowlands, focusing on Took' Witz, an architectural group of El Palmar in Campeche, Mexico. Excavations and debitage analysis at three plazuelas and a major debitage deposit revealed a complex lithic industry. The results identified segmented production activities in households, from sourcing materials and early-stage reduction to late-stage biface production. …
The Emergence of Kingship and Early Long Counts in the Maya Kingdom of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico
This study examines the relationship between the Long Count and emergent kingship in the central Maya Lowlands. The Long Count was instrumental in the prosperity of lowland Maya kingship during the Classic period (ca. a.d. 250–900), yet its initial application in relation to the emergence of kingship remains poorly understood. We conducted epigraphic, iconographic, and archaeological research at the Maya site of El Palmar, Campeche, Mexico. By in…
Maya (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Latin American history and culture (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics (4 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (3 works) · History (3 works)