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LATIN AMERICAN ANTIQUITY
卷 22, 期 2, 页码 199-223出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.7183/1045-6635.22.2.199
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- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0827275] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
This paper pursues the application of a central tenet of the dual-processual framework, the corporate/network continuum, to the development of Uxbenka, a small monument-bearing polity in the southern Maya Lowlands. During its growth, Uxbenka underwent a transformation from a small farming community to a complex polity with many of the trappings of elite authority that characterizes Classic Maya centers. It was one of the earliest complex polities to develop on the southeastern periphery of the Maya lowlands during the Early Classic period (A.D. 300-600). The polity was founded upon earlier agricultural communities that are now known to extend back to at least A.D. 100. Starting after A.D. 200 the location of the original agricultural village (Group A) was leveled and reorganized to form a public monument garden and the center of political authority throughout much of the Classic period (A.D. 400-800). In this article we present radiocarbon ages from well-defined stratigraphic contexts to establish a site chronology. Based on these data we suggest that by A.D. 450 Uxbenka was the center of a regional political system connected to some of the larger polities in the Maya world (e.g., Tikal). We argue that at this time Uxbenkd underwent a significant change from a polity organized by a corporate inclusionary form of rulership to a more networked one marked by exclusionary authority vested in elites who privileged their ancestral relations and network interactions across the geopolitical landscape.
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