Jennifer T Taschek
Biographic Data
| ID | 812904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer T Taschek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer T |
| FAMILY NAME | Taschek |
| SIGNATURE | TASCHEK J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Palygorskite from Sacalum, Yucatán in Maya Blue From the Eastern Maya Lowlands: New Evidence From Buenavista Del Cayo, Belize and La-ICP-MS Analysis
Maya Blue is a unique hybrid pigment created by combining organic indigo with the inorganic clay mineral palygorskite. First used for architectonic decoration in the Terminal Preclassic, it became widespread in the Late Classic on figurines, murals, and elite ceramics. Unlike indigo, it is notable for its durability and resistance to degradation by acids, alkalines, organic solvents and fading. The authors analyzed 17 samples of Maya Blue on pott…
First Steps-Dentition, Kinship, Social Groups, and Status in the Upper Belize River Valley: Small Sample Insights Into Classic Maya Social Organization in Central Western Belize
Nonmetric (morphological) and metric analyses of dental traits and dentition are an established and effective, but still much underutilized, means of determining biological relationships among the individuals comprising a population over several generations. Combining such dental analyses, a social organizational typology adapted from social psychology, and small sample statistics, this study hazards a trial examination of the evidence for biolog…
Aftermath A.D. 696—Late 7th and Early 8th Century Special Deposits and Elite Main Plaza Burials at Buenavista del Cayo, Western Belize: A Study in Classic Maya “Historical Archaeology”
Between 1984 and 1989, a number of depositional contexts were excavated at the Classic Maya center/site of Buenavista del Cayo in the upper Belize Valley that appeared to be products of sudden cessations of activity or architectural “terminations” dating to sometime in the late 7th to mid-8th century. Ceramic furnishings also linked at least two elite status burials on the Central Plaza of the site to these deposits. Conjunctive analysis of the d…
Ceramic History, Ceramic Change, and Architectural Sequence at Acanmul, Campeche: A Local Chronicle and Its Regional Implications
Acanmul is a medium-size center located at the north end of the Bay of Campeche about 25 km northeast of the city of Campeche. Between 1999 and 2005, three independent sets of investigations and major architectural consolidation were carried out at the center by archaeologists from the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche (UAC), the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Centro Regional de Campeche, and UAC in collaboration with San Di…
Sometimes a "Stove"is"Just a Stove: A Context-Based Reconsideration of Three-Prong "Incense Burners" from the Western Belize Valley
Among the most ubiquitous "functionally identifiable" archaeological artifacts found in the Belize Valley are so-called ceramic "censer horns" or "three-prong incensarios," sometimes glossed in the literature as "chile mashers" or "pestles." Since their original identifications in the 1920s, they generally have been regarded as incensarios-or ceremonial objects-and used regularly as indicators of private or public ritual activities. The authors h…
Reconsidering the Belize Valley Preclassic: A case for multiethnic interactions in the development of a regional culture tradition
Despite more than two decades of extensive and highly productive research programs by a series of institutions and individuals focusing specifically on the Preclassic archaeology of the Belize River Valley, understanding and appreciation of the region's ceramic tradition and interpreted culture history today effectively remain based on, and dependent on, unmodified conceptual formulations from the 1940s through the 1960s. These incorporate a view…
Nohoch Ek Revisited: The Minor Center as Manor
Over the last half-century, Maya archaeologists have variously identified "minor centers" as small-scale ceremonial or administrative centers, elite residential compounds, dower houses, manor houses, astronomical stations or markers, and boundary markers. Arguments for these identifications have ranged from simple assertions to elaborate analyses. What has emerged most clearly is that, as with any form of monolithic type, the "minor center" categ…
Out of the Palace Dumps: Ceramic Production and Use at Buenavista Del Cayo
An interdisciplinary approach to Late Classic Maya polychrome-painted ceramics from Buenavista del Cayo and Cahal Pech, Belize allows for preliminary observations relevant to a better understanding of elite pottery production and use in the western Belize Valley. The combination of typological and contextual data from archaeological investigations of ceramics along with art-historical stylistic analyses and ceramic-paste chemical-composition data…
Las Ruinas De Arenal: Preliminary Report on a Subregional Major Center in the Western Belize Valley (1991–1992 Excavations)
Las Ruinas de Arenal is a small “major” Lowland Maya center located at the southwest edge of the upper or western Belize Valley. This paper presents a preliminary description of Las Ruinas in formal, spatial, and temporal terms and reports the results of two short seasons of archaeological investigations carried out there in 1991 and 1992. Some aspects of the site's likely cultural, historical, and sociopolitical significance also are discussed
The Artifacts of Dzibilchaltún, Yucatan, Mexico: Shell, Polished Stone, Bone, Wood, and Ceramics
Late Classic Lowland Maya Political Organization and Central-Place Analysis: New insights from the Upper Belize Valley
Between 1984 and 1989, the San Diego State University Mopan–Macal Triangle Project carried out six extended seasons of fieldwork oriented toward documenting the internal sociobehavioral structure and organization of a representative Classic period community in the southern Maya Lowlands. The project also undertook to delineate the spatial boundaries of several such contiguous communities and to test a selected set of alternative models for Classi…
Late Classic Lowland Maya Political Organization and Central-Place Analysis: New insights from the Upper Belize Valley
Between 1984 and 1989, the San Diego State University Mopan–Macal Triangle Project carried out six extended seasons of fieldwork oriented toward documenting the internal sociobehavioral structure and organization of a representative Classic period community in the southern Maya Lowlands. The project also undertook to delineate the spatial boundaries of several such contiguous communities and to test a selected set of alternative models for Classi…
Out of the Palace Dumps: Ceramic Production and Use at Buenavista Del Cayo
An interdisciplinary approach to Late Classic Maya polychrome-painted ceramics from Buenavista del Cayo and Cahal Pech, Belize allows for preliminary observations relevant to a better understanding of elite pottery production and use in the western Belize Valley. The combination of typological and contextual data from archaeological investigations of ceramics along with art-historical stylistic analyses and ceramic-paste chemical-composition data…
Nohoch Ek Revisited: The Minor Center as Manor
Over the last half-century, Maya archaeologists have variously identified "minor centers" as small-scale ceremonial or administrative centers, elite residential compounds, dower houses, manor houses, astronomical stations or markers, and boundary markers. Arguments for these identifications have ranged from simple assertions to elaborate analyses. What has emerged most clearly is that, as with any form of monolithic type, the "minor center" categ…
Reconsidering the Belize Valley Preclassic: A case for multiethnic interactions in the development of a regional culture tradition
Despite more than two decades of extensive and highly productive research programs by a series of institutions and individuals focusing specifically on the Preclassic archaeology of the Belize River Valley, understanding and appreciation of the region's ceramic tradition and interpreted culture history today effectively remain based on, and dependent on, unmodified conceptual formulations from the 1940s through the 1960s. These incorporate a view…
Las Ruinas De Arenal: Preliminary Report on a Subregional Major Center in the Western Belize Valley (1991–1992 Excavations)
Las Ruinas de Arenal is a small “major” Lowland Maya center located at the southwest edge of the upper or western Belize Valley. This paper presents a preliminary description of Las Ruinas in formal, spatial, and temporal terms and reports the results of two short seasons of archaeological investigations carried out there in 1991 and 1992. Some aspects of the site's likely cultural, historical, and sociopolitical significance also are discussed
The Artifacts of Dzibilchaltún, Yucatan, Mexico: Shell, Polished Stone, Bone, Wood, and Ceramics
Ceramic History, Ceramic Change, and Architectural Sequence at Acanmul, Campeche: A Local Chronicle and Its Regional Implications
Acanmul is a medium-size center located at the north end of the Bay of Campeche about 25 km northeast of the city of Campeche. Between 1999 and 2005, three independent sets of investigations and major architectural consolidation were carried out at the center by archaeologists from the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche (UAC), the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Centro Regional de Campeche, and UAC in collaboration with San Di…
Sometimes a "Stove"is"Just a Stove: A Context-Based Reconsideration of Three-Prong "Incense Burners" from the Western Belize Valley
Among the most ubiquitous "functionally identifiable" archaeological artifacts found in the Belize Valley are so-called ceramic "censer horns" or "three-prong incensarios," sometimes glossed in the literature as "chile mashers" or "pestles." Since their original identifications in the 1920s, they generally have been regarded as incensarios-or ceremonial objects-and used regularly as indicators of private or public ritual activities. The authors h…
First Steps-Dentition, Kinship, Social Groups, and Status in the Upper Belize River Valley: Small Sample Insights Into Classic Maya Social Organization in Central Western Belize
Nonmetric (morphological) and metric analyses of dental traits and dentition are an established and effective, but still much underutilized, means of determining biological relationships among the individuals comprising a population over several generations. Combining such dental analyses, a social organizational typology adapted from social psychology, and small sample statistics, this study hazards a trial examination of the evidence for biolog…
Aftermath A.D. 696—Late 7th and Early 8th Century Special Deposits and Elite Main Plaza Burials at Buenavista del Cayo, Western Belize: A Study in Classic Maya “Historical Archaeology”
Between 1984 and 1989, a number of depositional contexts were excavated at the Classic Maya center/site of Buenavista del Cayo in the upper Belize Valley that appeared to be products of sudden cessations of activity or architectural “terminations” dating to sometime in the late 7th to mid-8th century. Ceramic furnishings also linked at least two elite status burials on the Central Plaza of the site to these deposits. Conjunctive analysis of the d…
Late Classic Lowland Maya Political Organization and Central-Place Analysis: New insights from the Upper Belize Valley
Between 1984 and 1989, the San Diego State University Mopan–Macal Triangle Project carried out six extended seasons of fieldwork oriented toward documenting the internal sociobehavioral structure and organization of a representative Classic period community in the southern Maya Lowlands. The project also undertook to delineate the spatial boundaries of several such contiguous communities and to test a selected set of alternative models for Classi…
The Artifacts of Dzibilchaltún, Yucatan, Mexico: Shell, Polished Stone, Bone, Wood, and Ceramics
Las Ruinas De Arenal: Preliminary Report on a Subregional Major Center in the Western Belize Valley (1991–1992 Excavations)
Las Ruinas de Arenal is a small “major” Lowland Maya center located at the southwest edge of the upper or western Belize Valley. This paper presents a preliminary description of Las Ruinas in formal, spatial, and temporal terms and reports the results of two short seasons of archaeological investigations carried out there in 1991 and 1992. Some aspects of the site's likely cultural, historical, and sociopolitical significance also are discussed
Out of the Palace Dumps: Ceramic Production and Use at Buenavista Del Cayo
An interdisciplinary approach to Late Classic Maya polychrome-painted ceramics from Buenavista del Cayo and Cahal Pech, Belize allows for preliminary observations relevant to a better understanding of elite pottery production and use in the western Belize Valley. The combination of typological and contextual data from archaeological investigations of ceramics along with art-historical stylistic analyses and ceramic-paste chemical-composition data…
Reconsidering the Belize Valley Preclassic: A case for multiethnic interactions in the development of a regional culture tradition
Despite more than two decades of extensive and highly productive research programs by a series of institutions and individuals focusing specifically on the Preclassic archaeology of the Belize River Valley, understanding and appreciation of the region's ceramic tradition and interpreted culture history today effectively remain based on, and dependent on, unmodified conceptual formulations from the 1940s through the 1960s. These incorporate a view…
Nohoch Ek Revisited: The Minor Center as Manor
Over the last half-century, Maya archaeologists have variously identified "minor centers" as small-scale ceremonial or administrative centers, elite residential compounds, dower houses, manor houses, astronomical stations or markers, and boundary markers. Arguments for these identifications have ranged from simple assertions to elaborate analyses. What has emerged most clearly is that, as with any form of monolithic type, the "minor center" categ…
Sometimes a "Stove"is"Just a Stove: A Context-Based Reconsideration of Three-Prong "Incense Burners" from the Western Belize Valley
Among the most ubiquitous "functionally identifiable" archaeological artifacts found in the Belize Valley are so-called ceramic "censer horns" or "three-prong incensarios," sometimes glossed in the literature as "chile mashers" or "pestles." Since their original identifications in the 1920s, they generally have been regarded as incensarios-or ceremonial objects-and used regularly as indicators of private or public ritual activities. The authors h…
Ceramic History, Ceramic Change, and Architectural Sequence at Acanmul, Campeche: A Local Chronicle and Its Regional Implications
Acanmul is a medium-size center located at the north end of the Bay of Campeche about 25 km northeast of the city of Campeche. Between 1999 and 2005, three independent sets of investigations and major architectural consolidation were carried out at the center by archaeologists from the Universidad Autónoma de Campeche (UAC), the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Centro Regional de Campeche, and UAC in collaboration with San Di…
Aftermath A.D. 696—Late 7th and Early 8th Century Special Deposits and Elite Main Plaza Burials at Buenavista del Cayo, Western Belize: A Study in Classic Maya “Historical Archaeology”
Between 1984 and 1989, a number of depositional contexts were excavated at the Classic Maya center/site of Buenavista del Cayo in the upper Belize Valley that appeared to be products of sudden cessations of activity or architectural “terminations” dating to sometime in the late 7th to mid-8th century. Ceramic furnishings also linked at least two elite status burials on the Central Plaza of the site to these deposits. Conjunctive analysis of the d…
First Steps-Dentition, Kinship, Social Groups, and Status in the Upper Belize River Valley: Small Sample Insights Into Classic Maya Social Organization in Central Western Belize
Nonmetric (morphological) and metric analyses of dental traits and dentition are an established and effective, but still much underutilized, means of determining biological relationships among the individuals comprising a population over several generations. Combining such dental analyses, a social organizational typology adapted from social psychology, and small sample statistics, this study hazards a trial examination of the evidence for biolog…
Palygorskite from Sacalum, Yucatán in Maya Blue From the Eastern Maya Lowlands: New Evidence From Buenavista Del Cayo, Belize and La-ICP-MS Analysis
Maya Blue is a unique hybrid pigment created by combining organic indigo with the inorganic clay mineral palygorskite. First used for architectonic decoration in the Terminal Preclassic, it became widespread in the Late Classic on figurines, murals, and elite ceramics. Unlike indigo, it is notable for its durability and resistance to degradation by acids, alkalines, organic solvents and fading. The authors analyzed 17 samples of Maya Blue on pott…
Archaeology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Maya (6 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 works) · Elite (4 works) · Latin American history and culture (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)