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- Title
Time tested: re-thinking chronology and sculptural traditions in Preclassic southern Mesoamerica.
- Authors
Inomata, Takeshi; Henderson, Lucia
- Abstract
Recent reassessment of the sequence at the highland Maya centre of Kaminaljuyu has led to a substantial chronological revision for Preclassic southern Mesoamerica. The new chronology suggests that various centres on the Gulf Coast, in Chiapas and in the Southern Maya Region experienced political disruption or reorganisation at the end of the Middle Preclassic period around 350 BC. It also shifts the initial rise and height of Kaminaljuyu forward 300 years. These shifts dramatically alter our understanding of sculptural developments in the Southern Maya Region, and emphasise the role of inter-regional interaction in the development of Maya civilisation.
- Subjects
MESOAMERICAN region; LATIN America; MAYA sculpture; MAYA chronology; KAMINALJUYU Site (Guatemala); REGIONALISM; MAYAN antiquities; CHARTS, diagrams, etc.; HISTORY
- Publication
Antiquity, 2016, Vol 90, Issue 350, p456
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15184/aqy.2016.23