ANTH 160A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Aguateca, Classic Maya Collapse, Endemic Warfare

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The impact of increased endemic warfare on the maya collapse . Elite houses were occupied by one household. Household heads were involved in important administrative work (carried out in the center-room) and were also highly skilled craft specialists. The royal palace did not exhibit a rapid abandonment pattern, but termination deposits , left there by the victors. Processes of the so-called terminal classic collapse . Ceibal is one of the earliest settlements in the maya lowlands. Xe phase , early middle preclassic (c. 1000-600 bc) Olmec-style jade ax foundation cache and ritual complex carved into bedrock show that people at ceibal already had well-developed ides of settlement layout. At least 5m of construction with multiple floors and structures dating to xe phase show a. Contacts with the highland areas of chiapas and possibly the gulf coast (olmec substantial early occupation artifacts)

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