Political Alliances and Trade Connections Observed in the Ceramic Record of the Classic Period: The Perspective from the Maya Site of Nakum, Guatemala
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Political Alliances and Trade Connections Observed in the Ceramic Record of the Classic Period : The Perspective from the Maya Site of Nakum, Guatemala. / Źrałka, Jarosław; Helmke, Christophe; Hermes, Bernard; Koszkul, Wiesław; Ting, Carmen; Bishop, Ronald L.; Bojkowska, Dorota.
I: Ancient Mesoamerica, Bind 31, Nr. 3, 2020, s. 461-475.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Political Alliances and Trade Connections Observed in the Ceramic Record of the Classic Period
T2 - The Perspective from the Maya Site of Nakum, Guatemala
AU - Źrałka, Jarosław
AU - Helmke, Christophe
AU - Hermes, Bernard
AU - Koszkul, Wiesław
AU - Ting, Carmen
AU - Bishop, Ronald L.
AU - Bojkowska, Dorota
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Recent research carried out at the Maya site of Nakum, located in northeastern Guatemala, has brought about the discovery of a large collection of ceramic artefacts. This substantial assemblage, apart from monochrome ceramics, includes fragments of polychrome vessels that are decorated with elaborate iconographic scenes and painted hieroglyphic texts. Most of them date to the Late Classic period (ca. a.d. 600–800), which represents the peak of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. The style of these ceramics, their iconography and accompanying glyphic texts, supplemented in many cases by mineralogical and physicochemical analyses of the ceramic samples, indicate that Nakum was part of a broad and complex network of political and economic interactions between various sites and polities of the southern Maya lowlands in the Classic period. During the first part of the Late Classic period, Nakum seems to maintain close relations with Naranjo, probably serving as its vassal at least from the reign of its renowned king Aj Wosal. After the victory of Tikal over Naranjo in the first part of the eighth century, Nakum shows closer cultural and political connections with Tikal. Nevertheless, towards the end of the Classic era, when we observe the profound collapse of lowland Maya civilization, Nakum elites gain political independence from their former overlords.
AB - Recent research carried out at the Maya site of Nakum, located in northeastern Guatemala, has brought about the discovery of a large collection of ceramic artefacts. This substantial assemblage, apart from monochrome ceramics, includes fragments of polychrome vessels that are decorated with elaborate iconographic scenes and painted hieroglyphic texts. Most of them date to the Late Classic period (ca. a.d. 600–800), which represents the peak of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. The style of these ceramics, their iconography and accompanying glyphic texts, supplemented in many cases by mineralogical and physicochemical analyses of the ceramic samples, indicate that Nakum was part of a broad and complex network of political and economic interactions between various sites and polities of the southern Maya lowlands in the Classic period. During the first part of the Late Classic period, Nakum seems to maintain close relations with Naranjo, probably serving as its vassal at least from the reign of its renowned king Aj Wosal. After the victory of Tikal over Naranjo in the first part of the eighth century, Nakum shows closer cultural and political connections with Tikal. Nevertheless, towards the end of the Classic era, when we observe the profound collapse of lowland Maya civilization, Nakum elites gain political independence from their former overlords.
U2 - 10.1017/S0956536120000152
DO - 10.1017/S0956536120000152
M3 - Journal article
VL - 31
SP - 461
EP - 475
JO - Ancient Mesoamerica
JF - Ancient Mesoamerica
SN - 0956-5361
IS - 3
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