Search Results - "Stanton, Travis W."
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Garbage of the Gods? Squatters, Refuse Disposal, and Termination Rituals among the Ancient Maya
Published in Latin American antiquity (01-09-2008)“…Differentiating the material patterning between domestic refuse from squatters and ceremonial trash generated from termination rituals has been difficult for…”
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Beyond the buildings: Formation processes of ancient Maya houselots and methods for the study of non-architectural space
Published in Journal of anthropological archaeology (01-09-2007)“…The success of activity areas research in domestic contexts has highlighted the need for archaeologists working in the tropics to explore both indoor and…”
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Mesoamerican urbanism revisited: Environmental change, adaptation, resilience, persistence, and collapse
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-08-2023)“…Urban adaptation to climate change is a global challenge requiring a broad response that can be informed by how urban societies in the past responded to…”
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Comparison of two ancient DNA extraction protocols for skeletal remains from tropical environments
Published in American journal of physical anthropology (01-08-2018)“…Objectives The tropics harbor a large part of the world's biodiversity and have a long history of human habitation. However, paleogenomics research in these…”
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IMPACTS OF POLITICS ON MATERIAL CULTURE: EVALUATING THE YAXUNA-COBA SACBE
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (01-04-2013)“…Over the past thirty years, Mayanists have increasingly discussed the relationships between large polities. Advances in our understanding of epigraphy have…”
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“ALL THAT IS SOLID…”: SACBES, SETTLEMENT, AND SEMIOTICS AT TZACAUIL, YUCATAN
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (01-10-2012)“…This paper applies structuration theory and semiotics to interpret the results of a recently completed total coverage pedestrian survey to the east of Yaxuna,…”
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Assessing the Role of Preclassic Traditions in the Formation of Early Classic Yucatec Cultures, México
Published in Journal of field archaeology (01-03-2010)“…In the northern Maya lowlands the transition from the Late Preclassic to the Early Classic is poorly understood. Despite the knowledge that ceramic traditions…”
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THE MIDDLE FORMATIVE OF YUCATAN IN CONTEXT: The view from Yaxuna
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (01-07-2005)“…Assumptions concerning the late dating of Middle Formative ceramics in the northern Maya lowlands and similarities between this region and areas to the south…”
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HOUSE RULES?: The practice of social organization in Classic-period Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (01-01-2004)“…This paper presents results of excavations from three house lots at Chunchucmil, a Classic-period site in northwestern Yucatan, Mexico. Each of the three house…”
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WARFARE, CERAMIC ECONOMY, AND THE ITZA: A reconsideration of the Itza polity in ancient Yucatan
Published in Ancient Mesoamerica (01-07-2001)“…Models of polity organization in the northern Maya lowlands are often based on the distribution of ceramic types. These models do not account for crucial links…”
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A space of One’s own: Houselot size among the ancient Maya
Published in Journal of anthropological archaeology (01-12-2021)“…Digital elevation model and hillshades of a Coba residential area (left) and the same area with open positive visualization and highlighting in red of…”
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‘Structure’ density, area, and volume as complementary tools to understand Maya Settlement: An analysis of lidar data along the great road between Coba and Yaxuna
Published in Journal of archaeological science, reports (01-02-2020)“…•Analyses of volume, basal area, and structure count (polygon) density are similar at the macro-regional scale.•Structure volume and basal area densities vary…”
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Soil biomarkers of cacao tree cultivation in the sacred cacao groves of the northern Maya lowlands
Published in Journal of archaeological science, reports (01-02-2022)“…•The Ancient Maya tended sacred groves of cacao trees.•The shade, moisture and humidity of karst sinkholes supported cacao cultivation.•Hot water extraction of…”
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Cover: New forms of human mortuary treatment from a ritual cave deposit from Yaxuná, Yucatán
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ALL THAT IS SOLID...: SACBES, SETTLEMENT, AND SEMIOTICS AT TZACAUIL, YUCATAN : CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY IN YUCATAN
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Ancient Maya Cities of the Eastern Lowlands
Published in Bulletin of Latin American research (01-01-2017)“…By Houk, Brett A…”
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