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TERMINAL CLASSIC CIRCULAR ARCHITECTURE IN THE SIBUN VALLEY, BELIZE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2014

Eleanor Harrison-Buck  and
Patricia A. McAnany
Eleanor Harrison-Buck*
Affiliation:
University of New Hampshire, Department of Anthropology, 311 Huddleston Hall, 73 Main Street, Durham, NH 03824
Patricia A. McAnany
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Room 211, Alumni Building Department of Anthropology, CB# 3115, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115
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Email correspondence to: [email protected]
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Abstract

Terminal Classic circular architecture has been characterized as a “non-Classic” trait stemming from Chontal-Itza groups from the Gulf lowlands who developed a long-distance, circum-peninsular trade route and established their capital city at Chichen Itza in northern Yucatan. Recent investigations of a series of circular shrines proximate to the Caribbean coast in Belize have yielded ceramics and radiocarbon dates that link these buildings to the ninth century, coeval with the early Sotuta phase at Chichen Itza (a.d. 830–900). We present an architectural comparison of circular shrines and map out a network of sites that cluster along the rivers and coast of Belize. We consider two possibilities that may not be mutually exclusive: (1) local elite emulation of northern styles following pilgrimage to Chichen Itza for political accession ceremonies, and, (2) trading diasporas involving small-scale migration of Chontal-Itza merchants along the eastern Caribbean coast.

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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , Fall 2013 , pp. 295 - 306
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