Competition and conflict in the Upper Belize River Valley: Insights from the ancient Maya minor center of Callar Creek, Belize
| Autor: | Sarah Kurnick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Archeology
060101 anthropology 060102 archaeology Community archaeology 06 humanities and the arts Minor (academic) 16. Peace & justice Archaeology Competition (economics) Politics Geography Period (geology) 0601 history and archaeology Household archaeology Center (algebra and category theory) Rural settlement |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Field Archaeology. 41:297-311 |
| ISSN: | 2042-4582 0093-4690 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00934690.2016.1171604 |
| Popis: | Political relationships typically entail competition and conflict. Within the ancient Maya world, the Upper Belize River Valley (UBRV) offers one example of an arena of intense political contestation, and recent investigations at the minor center of Callar Creek offer insights into this complex and occasionally antagonistic political landscape. During the Late and Terminal Classic periods (a.d. 600–900), for example, those living at the Callar Creek center appear to have affiliated themselves with the larger center of Buenavista, but not to have developed political ties with those in surrounding hinterland communities. Indeed, Callar Creek provides an example in which the political fortunes of a minor center and its surrounding hinterlands followed divergent paths. Furthermore, a termination event suggests that part of the Callar Creek center was purposefully destroyed by adversaries in the Terminal Classic period, and that discordant relationships in the UBRV at times turned violent. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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