A STORY OF AWE AND CLAY: MOLD-MADE HIEROGLYPHS FROM ALTA VERAPAZ, GUATEMALA

Autor: Erin Sears, Alexander Rivas, Alejandro Garay, Nikolai Grube, Brent K.S. Woodfill
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Ancient Mesoamerica. 33:417-431
ISSN: 1469-1787
0956-5361
DOI: 10.1017/s095653612000053x
Popis: The recent discovery of an ancient Late Classic ceramic production facility in a valley floor, east of the current capital of Cobán in Guatemala, reveals a new ceramic form and provides data concerning regional chronology. Among the remains are thin, mold-made fragments identified as ceramic plaques that have epigraphic information providing a Long Count date for the first time in the Alta Verapaz region. These data correlate with the preliminary ceramic sequences and assist with understanding political-economic interactions that occurred at a time of societal collapse within the southern lowland region.
Databáze: OpenAIRE