Food for the Dead and the Living Contextualizing Biological Remains from Late Classic Maya Structures at K’axob, Belize
The Maya of the Late Classic period (AD 550–750) generally lived in an arrangement called the social house, or the localized residential group, which physically consisted of a relatively elite residential complex surrounded by smaller structures housing heterogeneous nuclear units (Arnauld et al. 20...
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Published in | Ancient Foodways p. 111 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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University Press of Florida
30.12.2022
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Edition | 1 |
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Summary: | The Maya of the Late Classic period (AD 550–750) generally lived in an arrangement called the social house, or the localized residential group, which physically consisted of a relatively elite residential complex surrounded by smaller structures housing heterogeneous nuclear units (Arnauld et al. 2013; Gillespie 2007; Lévi-Strauss 1982:174). People with distinct levels of power over and access to resources lived side by side in these residential clusters. The treatment of the dead reflected the heterogeneity of statuses present within houses, as those with important roles in the social house were interred under floors of elite residential units and were |
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ISBN: | 0813069491 9780813069494 |