David A Freidel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 87125 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David A Freidel |
| PRENOMES | David A |
| SOBRENOME | Freidel |
| ASSINATURA | FREIDEL D A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4704-863X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 262 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World
Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World
Waka’ on the International Stage
Introduction
This Special Section focuses on recent research centered on iron-ore mirrors in Mesoamerica and Central America. Iron-ore mirrors are rare and esoteric artifacts, mainly crafted by specialized centers in the Maya, central Mexico, and Zapotec areas from the Early Preclassic to the Postclassic. They were found in numerous archaeological sites and cultures, from the Gila River in the United States to the isthmus of Panama. In this introduction, we p…
Classic Maya mirror conjurors of Waka', Guatemala
The Classic period lowland Maya used iron-ore mosaic mirrors and deposited mirrors in the burials of rulers and other people. Depictions of mirrors suggest that they were used for scrying, as were mirrors in Mesoamerica at the time of the Spanish arrival. Maya mirror users of this kind were conjurors, who used a variety of other divining and conjuring instruments and materials, including plates and shallow bowls. Three rulers at El Peru-Waka', no…
Waka’ Stela 44 and the Early Classic Kaan hegemony
The Kaan (“Snake”) kings, a powerful political entity in the Classic Maya Lowlands, were housed in the Early Classic period at Dzibanche, and they moved their capital to Calakmul by the year a.d. 642 (Helmke and Awe 2016; Martin 2020:138–139). Their network of alliance and intermarriage radiated southward, and Waka's early eighth-century queen, Lady K'abel, was from the Kaan bloodline and married in to the Wak lineage, exemplifying the close conn…
Snake queens and political consolidation
Mesoamerican iron-ore mirrors found in Costa Rica
Nearly 60 complete or fragmentary slate backings from iron-ore mirrors have been found in pre-Columbian funerary contexts in northern Costa Rica, including a couple that bear Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions. With the exception of a single example dating between a.d. 800 and 1550, these slate objects typically occur in contexts dating from 300 b.c. to a.d. 500–600. Recent geochemical analyses indicate foreign production of these artifacts, likely i…
Snake queens and political consolidation
Classic Maya history was rife with shifting political coalitions and disputes with the key antagonists, Tikal and the Kaan regime, at the center. Understanding how power dynamics and political shifts were experienced among subordinate polities is best viewed from multiple perspectives. We employ elements of Graeber and Sahlins' (2017) stranger-king model, focusing on exogamous marriage practices in relation to two Snake Queens ruling at Waka’. Th…
Classic Maya Mirror Conjurors of Waka’, Guatemala – Corrigendum
First Old WomanMan and the Mesoamerican Diphrastic Kenning of Engendering
The royalty of the Classic Maya of Mesoamerica, and later sages of the Maya, used a powerful diphrastic kenning chab akab', glossed as "generation-darkness" to convey a range of objectives, conjuring foremost among them. Known principally from hieroglyphic written expressions, but also depicted in the form of sacrificial instruments and offerings, Eleanor Harrison-Buck, following Timothy Knowlton, proposed that the kenning references sexual inter…
Reassessing Shamanism and Animism in the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica
Shamanism and animism have proven to be useful cross-cultural analytical tools for anthropology, particularly in religious studies. However, both concepts root in reductionist, social evolutionary theory and have been criticized for their vague and homogenizing rubric, an overly romanticized idealism, and the tendency to 'other' nonwestern peoples as ahistorical, apolitical, and irrational. The alternative has been a largely secular view of relig…
The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies
A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and intricacy of economic systems in the Preclassic period, Classic period, and Postclassic period. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines move beyond paradigms of elite control and centralized exchange to focus on individual agency, highlighting production and exchange that took place at all levels of society. C…
The Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies
Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies
Real Business of Ancient Maya Economies
"A timely synthesis of the latest research and perspectives on ancient Maya economics, this volume illuminates the sophistication and complexity of economic systems in the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods. Fully representing the range of current views on the subject, these essays delve deeply into multiple facets of a complex, interdependent material world"
The Distribution and Significance of E Groups
The significance of E Groups to the ancient Maya has been recognized for almost a century. Placed facing each other across a formal plaza, a western pyramid and a long eastern platform that usually supports three structures form the architectural arrangement known as an E Group. The solar alignments within an E Group were recognized first at Uaxactún, Guatemala, and were interpreted to mean that the entire complex functioned as a giant calendrica…
E Groups, Cosmology, and the Origins of Maya Rulership
The material symbol-systems of the Preclassic (1000 BCE–250 CE) Maya reflect a focus on the daily and annual cycles of the sun and the relationship between these and the cycles of the agrarian year, particularly as represented in the anthropomorphic Maize God. The Maya sun gods, the Maize God, and the solar avatar of the Creator God Itzamnaaj or the Principal Bird Deity are depicted in architectural decoration, murals and carvings in Preclassic c…
Before Kukulkán
Maya E Groups
Maya e Groups
E Groups, Cosmology, and the Origins of Maya Rulership
Maya E Groups
This volume assembles a coherent set of chapters that discuss new field research results on E Groups and establish an emerging paradigmatic framework for the origins of lowland Maya civilization focused on the E Group phenomenon as a key feature of community organization and urbanism in its geographic heartland
Imagining a Complex Maya Political Economy
Exploring the long-term use of accounting practices and currencies by literate and numerate authorities contributes new information regarding the complexity of the political economy of ancient Maya society. Two forms of indirect, yet compelling, lines of evidence for accounting practices and currencies are presented in this article. First, we identify potential accounting devices (counting sticks and tokens) found in the tombs of royal scribes an…
An argument for Classic era Maya market exchange
Kingship in the Late Preclassic Maya Lowlands
The Maya of Central America constitute the only truly literate pre-Columbian civilization. Analysis of ancient Maya hieroglyphic texts and accompanying images dating from the Classic period (A.D. 200-900) documents the presence of a central and pervasive institution of governance: ahaw. The material symbol systems of the Lowland Maya of the protoliterate Late Preclassic period (350 B.C.-A.D. 100), as evinced in monumental decorated buildings and …
Maya E Groups
This volume assembles a coherent set of chapters that discuss new field research results on E Groups and establish an emerging paradigmatic framework for the origins of lowland Maya civilization focused on the E Group phenomenon as a key feature of community organization and urbanism in its geographic heartland
Cozumel, late Maya settlement patterns
Culture Areas and Interaction Spheres
Recently several models have been proposed for the origin and evolution of lowland Maya civilization. These models share a basic spatial framework, the culture area, which is logically tied to a particular theoretical approach to the emergence of lowland Maya civilization. The culture area approach rests on the premise that sociocultural innovation occurs as a localized response to local natural and social conditions. Such innovation subsequently…
Maya Cosmos
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Imagining a Complex Maya Political Economy
Exploring the long-term use of accounting practices and currencies by literate and numerate authorities contributes new information regarding the complexity of the political economy of ancient Maya society. Two forms of indirect, yet compelling, lines of evidence for accounting practices and currencies are presented in this article. First, we identify potential accounting devices (counting sticks and tokens) found in the tombs of royal scribes an…
Reassessing Shamanism and Animism in the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica
Shamanism and animism have proven to be useful cross-cultural analytical tools for anthropology, particularly in religious studies. However, both concepts root in reductionist, social evolutionary theory and have been criticized for their vague and homogenizing rubric, an overly romanticized idealism, and the tendency to 'other' nonwestern peoples as ahistorical, apolitical, and irrational. The alternative has been a largely secular view of relig…
Placing the Centre, Centring the Place
A series of Formative Period causeways (sacbeob) at the Maya site of Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico, constituted elements of an early geomantic plan that was renegotiated by the inhabitants of this centre for 1500–2000 years. This plan embodied a series of sacred metaphors including the World Tree and Milky Way. After its initial construction, this widely recognized sacred landscape was reinterpreted using the language of causeways and buildings by peop…
Classic Maya mirror conjurors of Waka', Guatemala
The Classic period lowland Maya used iron-ore mosaic mirrors and deposited mirrors in the burials of rulers and other people. Depictions of mirrors suggest that they were used for scrying, as were mirrors in Mesoamerica at the time of the Spanish arrival. Maya mirror users of this kind were conjurors, who used a variety of other divining and conjuring instruments and materials, including plates and shallow bowls. Three rulers at El Peru-Waka', no…
Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize
The rubber-ball game is a characteristic feature of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization. Masonry courts designed for variants of the game are relatively common at lowland Maya sites of the Late Classic period (660–900 A.C.). Before this period, ballcourts are extremely rare in this region; the developmental history of the game, therefore, remains obscure. Two masonry courts dating to the Late Preclassic period (400 B.C.–150 A.C.) have been di…
Snake queens and political consolidation
Classic Maya history was rife with shifting political coalitions and disputes with the key antagonists, Tikal and the Kaan regime, at the center. Understanding how power dynamics and political shifts were experienced among subordinate polities is best viewed from multiple perspectives. We employ elements of Graeber and Sahlins' (2017) stranger-king model, focusing on exogamous marriage practices in relation to two Snake Queens ruling at Waka’. Th…
Waka’ Stela 44 and the Early Classic Kaan hegemony
The Kaan (“Snake”) kings, a powerful political entity in the Classic Maya Lowlands, were housed in the Early Classic period at Dzibanche, and they moved their capital to Calakmul by the year a.d. 642 (Helmke and Awe 2016; Martin 2020:138–139). Their network of alliance and intermarriage radiated southward, and Waka's early eighth-century queen, Lady K'abel, was from the Kaan bloodline and married in to the Wak lineage, exemplifying the close conn…
Mesoamerican iron-ore mirrors found in Costa Rica
Nearly 60 complete or fragmentary slate backings from iron-ore mirrors have been found in pre-Columbian funerary contexts in northern Costa Rica, including a couple that bear Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions. With the exception of a single example dating between a.d. 800 and 1550, these slate objects typically occur in contexts dating from 300 b.c. to a.d. 500–600. Recent geochemical analyses indicate foreign production of these artifacts, likely i…
A Conversation With Gordon Willey
News and Short Contributions
The Prehistory of the Tehuacan Valley. Vol. V
Maritime Adaptation and the Rise of Maya Civilization
Archaeology
Culture Areas and Interaction Spheres
Recently several models have been proposed for the origin and evolution of lowland Maya civilization. These models share a basic spatial framework, the culture area, which is logically tied to a particular theoretical approach to the emergence of lowland Maya civilization. The culture area approach rests on the premise that sociocultural innovation occurs as a localized response to local natural and social conditions. Such innovation subsequently…
Ancient Civilizations
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Two Late Preclassic Ballcourts at the Lowland Maya Center of Cerros, Northern Belize
The rubber-ball game is a characteristic feature of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilization. Masonry courts designed for variants of the game are relatively common at lowland Maya sites of the Late Classic period (660–900 A.C.). Before this period, ballcourts are extremely rare in this region; the developmental history of the game, therefore, remains obscure. Two masonry courts dating to the Late Preclassic period (400 B.C.–150 A.C.) have been di…
Cozumel, late Maya settlement patterns
Cozumel
The Mesoamerican World
Mesoamerica was a social system. It was, to borrow from Immanuel Wallerstein, a world-system, meaning that its destiny was largely self-defined, and to its participants it represented all the world they wished to care about
Archaeology at Cerros, Belize, Central America. Volume 1. An Interim Report
Kingship in the Late Preclassic Maya Lowlands
The Maya of Central America constitute the only truly literate pre-Columbian civilization. Analysis of ancient Maya hieroglyphic texts and accompanying images dating from the Classic period (A.D. 200-900) documents the presence of a central and pervasive institution of governance: ahaw. The material symbol systems of the Lowland Maya of the protoliterate Late Preclassic period (350 B.C.-A.D. 100), as evinced in monumental decorated buildings and …
Reading the Past
The Courts of Creation
Cerro Palenque
A Conversation With Gordon Willey
Maya Cosmos
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Uncommon Ground
Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period. Dorie Reents-Budet
Placing the Centre, Centring the Place
A series of Formative Period causeways (sacbeob) at the Maya site of Yaxuná, Yucatán, Mexico, constituted elements of an early geomantic plan that was renegotiated by the inhabitants of this centre for 1500–2000 years. This plan embodied a series of sacred metaphors including the World Tree and Milky Way. After its initial construction, this widely recognized sacred landscape was reinterpreted using the language of causeways and buildings by peop…
The Maya (7th edition) – Michael D. Coe
The Flesh of God
An argument for Classic era Maya market exchange
The Distribution and Significance of E Groups
The significance of E Groups to the ancient Maya has been recognized for almost a century. Placed facing each other across a formal plaza, a western pyramid and a long eastern platform that usually supports three structures form the architectural arrangement known as an E Group. The solar alignments within an E Group were recognized first at Uaxactún, Guatemala, and were interpreted to mean that the entire complex functioned as a giant calendrica…
E Groups, Cosmology, and the Origins of Maya Rulership
The material symbol-systems of the Preclassic (1000 BCE–250 CE) Maya reflect a focus on the daily and annual cycles of the sun and the relationship between these and the cycles of the agrarian year, particularly as represented in the anthropomorphic Maize God. The Maya sun gods, the Maize God, and the solar avatar of the Creator God Itzamnaaj or the Principal Bird Deity are depicted in architectural decoration, murals and carvings in Preclassic c…
Before Kukulkán
Archaeology (30 obras) · History (27 obras) · Maya (24 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 obras) · Geography (20 obras) · Latin American history and culture (19 obras) · Art (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · History (10 obras) · Ancient history (9 obras)