K'axob
Ritual, Work, and Family in an Ancient Maya Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2740232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Ardren (0000-0002-9944-2161, University of Miami, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 798-799 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00141801-52-4-798 |
| OpenAlex | W2027475080 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
Shortly after 800 B.C., a village was founded in the wetland and riverine habitat of northern Belize. Now called K’axob, this Maya community grew and prospered through Formative and Classic times. A millennial-long record of Formative life has been investigated archaeologically by peeling back the closely stratified layers of superimposed domiciles. These houses, their domestic and mortuary features, and associated artifacts reveal a conscious construction of identity and shed light on the manner in which materiality was manipulated in response to larger political dictates. Longterm stasis in material remains suggests that artisan production played a key role in social reproduction, yet the manner in which access to key resources was increasingly localized intimates a political landscape of crystallizing hierarchies. Subfloor mortuary interments were spatially associated with cuisine-related features such as sherd-lined pits, reflecting a cosmology in which ritual and work were closely integrated. These insights and more are presented in individual chapters that examine the material remains of early K’axob. An accompanying interactive CD provides complementary materials on a scale never before achieved and includes comprehensive data sets, over one thousand images (both photographs and line drawings), a tour of K’axob, and 3-D models of the excavation units
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Life and Death Among the Earliest Maya
Karen Pierce & Louise Belanger. 2024. Illustrations of Maya pottery from Lamanai, Belize (Archaeology of the Maya Vol. 13; British Archaeological Reports international series 3191). Oxford
The Archaeology of Belize in the Twenty-First Century
Preclassic Maya caches in residential contexts
An argument for Classic era Maya market exchange
Complexity and Sustainability
Connecting households
Introduction
Thinking about archaeological excavation in reflexive terms
Mortuary Rituals and Cranial Modifications at Ceibal
The Emergence of Standardized Spatial Plans in Southern Mesoamerica
Ancestral Maya domesticated waterscapes, ecological aquaculture, and integrated subsistence
Ancient Maya Economy
Lowland Maya Genesis
The Central Role of Cave Archaeology in the Reconstruction of Classic Maya Culture History and Highland-Lowland Interaction
Parting (With) the Dead
Evidence for Slingstones and Related Projectile Stone Use by the Ancient Maya of the Usumacinta River Valley Region
Politics Through Pottery
Neither Dopes Nor Dupes
Public Ritual and Interregional Interactions
Tikal's Early Classic Domination of the Great Western Trade Route
The Origins and Identification of the Early Maya From Colha and Northern Belize
After 40 Years
The Preceramic and Early Ceramic Periods in Belize and the Central Maya Lowlands
Ka'kaw Pots and Common Containers
The Life and Death of Homes at Noh K'uh
The Porous Boundary
Building an Early Maya Community
Claims to Countermapping at Say Kah, Belize
Technological Choice and Raw Material Availability
The Maya “Protoclassic” from the Perspective of Recent Research at Nakum, Peten, Guatemala
Of Watery Rocks and Slumbering Crocs
Early Maya Ritual Practices and Craft Production
Settling down at Ceibal and Cuello
Middle Preclassic period Maya greenstone “triangulates”
Advances in Geochemical Sourcing of Granite Ground Stone
Social Complexity and the Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya
Excavations in Nakum structure 99
Xtobo, Yucatan, Mexico, and the Emergent Preclassic of the Northern Maya Lowlands
Chronological Revision of Preclassic Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala
Preclassic and Classic Maya Interregional and Long-Distance Exchange
Little Helpers, Companions, and Ancestors
Archaic Origins of the Lowland Maya
Archaic Period Lithic Technology, Sedentism, and Subsistence in Northern Belize
Preclassic Maya Houses and Rituals
Reassessing San Estevan's Role in the Late Formative Political Geography of Northern Belize
Practices of Place-Making, Ancestralizing, and Re-animation within Memory Communities
The Construction of Public and Domestic Spheres in the Preclassic Maya Lowlands
Nonagricultural Cultivation and Social Complexity
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |