ANTHROP 2VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joya De Cerén, Grave Goods, Chultun

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Social organization: people, households, and domestic puruits in the classic maya lowlands. ; comon domestic artifacts: settlement and households; baking pot settlemet and population activity. Kuhul ahau - supreme king/ruler: hereditary position; patrilineal societies, but many examples of female rulers exist. Cahals/batans - rest of royal family, positions include administrative and military rulers. Elites - usually priests, astronomers, astrologers, matematicians, scribes. Middle stratum - usually merchants, traders, specialist artisans. If not elites, they are above commoners. usually wealthier. Commoners - primarily farmers, sometimes craft specialists. Providing tribute up the pyramid in the form of food, goods, provision of labour: today we focus on commoners. Ways of gathering evidence: ethnohistory, modern ethonography/ethnoarchaeology, archaeological materials. 3 major areas covered: highland areas, sierra lacondon, arojas. Diego de landa - relacion de las casas de yucatan: commoners lived in houses consisting of a rock bottom or foundation, and a perishable pole or thatch structure above.

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