Through the use of sophisticated ceramic chronology techniques, the
author documents how small farming communities like Nacimiento and
Dos Ceibas grew from hamlets in the seventh century A.D. into
villages with several hundred inhabitants. He traces how local
elites emerged during the eighth century A.D. and built outsized
residential groups.
Mutual exchanges in these villages leveled material wealth, but
also translated into social status and legitimized social
inequality. As settings for public rituals, these exchanges helped
integrate the communities, while individual households conducted
domestic rituals that included ancestor veneration, dedication
offerings, and termination rituals.
The inhabitants of Aguateca's rural hinterland interacted on
multiple levels within and beyond the boundaries of their
communities. The economic, sociopolitical, and ritual changes
during the Late Classic highlight the complexity and dynamism of
local communities.
VIMA Series #8
Vanderbilt Institute of Mesoamerican Archaeology Studies Series,
Edited by Arthur A. Demarest
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