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Before Kukulkan - Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuna (Hardcover)
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Before Kukulkan - Bioarchaeology of Maya Life, Death, and Identity at Classic Period Yaxuna (Hardcover)
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This volume illuminates human lifeways in the northern Maya
lowlands prior to the rise of Chichen Itza. This period and area
have been poorly understood on their own terms, obscured by
scholarly focus on the central lowland Maya kingdoms. Before
Kukulkan is anchored in three decades of interdisciplinary research
at the Classic Maya capital of Yaxuna, located at a contentious
crossroads of the northern Maya lowlands. Using bioarchaeology,
mortuary archaeology, and culturally sensitive mainstream
archaeology, the authors create an in-depth regional understanding
while also laying out broader ways of learning about the Maya past.
Part one examines ancient lifeways among the Maya at Yaxuna, while
part two explores different meanings of dying and cycling at the
settlement and beyond-ancestral practices, royal entombment and
desecration, and human sacrifice. The authors close with a
discussion of the last years of occupation at Yaxuna and the role
of Chichen Itza in the abandonment of this urban center. Before
Kukulkan provides a cohesive synthesis of the evolving roles and
collective identities of locals and foreigners at the settlement
and their involvement in the region's trajectory. Theoretically
informed and contextualized discussions offer unique glimpses of
everyday life and death in the socially fluid Maya city. These
findings, in conjunction with other documented series of skeletal
remains from this region, provide a nuanced picture of the social
and biocultural dynamics that operated successfully for centuries
before the arrival of the Itza.
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